Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Yield Sign, Sound Recording And Reproduction, Change Blindness

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Sophonow case: charged for the murder of stopple in winnipeg, after 18 years he was exonerated. Staged theft: calculator stolen with 3 different conditions, hat covered face, hat covered ears, no hat, the more visual information available, the higher the percentage of correctly identifying the thief. The problems with verbalization: telling people to write down a description, trying to put an image of a face into words can make memory worse, no verbalization had a higher percentage of correct identification than the verbalization conditions. Are polygraph machines accurate at detecting lies: a machine that measures physiological responses (hr, breathing , people were correctly labelled as lying 86% of the time, false positives are possible. Hypnosis: there is no proof that hypnosis improves memory, more susceptible to suggestion believing they saw things that they didn"t, they can become more confident in their memories even though they are no more accurate.

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