PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Cognitive Psychology, Egg Salad, Sleep Deprivation
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1992 plane crash into an 11-story apartment, killing 43 people & the plane"s entire crew. 10 months later, 193 people were asked did you see the television film of the moment the plane hit the building? more than half reported seeing it, although there was no such film. In a follow-up study, they surveyed another 93 people were asked whether they had seen it on tv & more detailed questions about what exactly they had seen in the film. 2/3 remembered seeing the film, & most of them confidently provided details about it. Brewer & treyens (1981): participants asked to wait briefly in the experimenter"s office. & after 35s they were taken out of the office & told that there actually was no experimental procedure, instead the study was about their memory for the room. Their responses were influenced by their knowledge of what an academic office typically contains; not what it actually contained.