PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7.3: Hot Air Balloon

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Whenever we are retrieving a memory, in order to do that we must reconstruct that memory in our head. You rated yourself this way because you are biased by the fact that you want to believe that your workout plan made you more fit now then you remember being before) In criminal cases where witnesses are interviewed about them trying to recall events of a crime they"ve seen, studies show that: The specific verbs and words used by the interviewer can have a huge effect on how the witness recalls the events (by using more dramatic words, they may over exaggerate the event) What happens sometimes is the misinformation effect when information occurring after an event becomes part of the memory for that event. The tone of the interviewer in addition to the types of words used can also have an effect (if the interviewer shows a happy tone, the witness may recall the events as if everything was ok)