Psychology 2032A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Eyewitness Memory, Long-Term Memory, Leading Question

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: gribble

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Thursday, october 25, 2018 psych and law textbook notes chapter 5 eyewitness testimony. (1) encoding: perceive and pay attention to details in your environment. (2) short term memory: has a limited capacity. (3) long term memory: can be accessed or retrieved as needed. Myths: wording of a question doesnt in uence an eyewitness" response, greater stress improves an eyewitness memory, race of eyewitness and perp. has no impact on identi cation accuracy, presence of a weapon doesnt impact eyewitness memory. Eyewitness memory retrieval: recall memory reporting details of a perviously witnessed event or person, recognition memory determining whether a previously seen item or person is the same as what is currently being viewed. How do we study eyewitness issues: lab. simulation. Unknown participant views a critical event through a slide sequence, a video or live. The participant is unaware they will be questioned then is asked to describe what happened, the sus. involved.