PSYC 3265 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Eyewitness Memory, Inattentional Blindness, Change Blindness
12 Oct 2016
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Inattentional blindness the failure to perceive the appearance of an unexpected object in the. Change blindness blindness individuals" exaggerated belief that they can detect visual changes visual environment (e. g. , the gorilla experiment). Confirmation bias event memory is influenced and distorted by the observer"s expectations. Schema theory recall involves a process in which all relevant information (including schema-based information) is used to reconstruct the details of an event based on (cid:498)what must have been true(cid:499). Ex: loftus & palmer eyewitness memory can be easily influenced by misleading information presented was better for info relevant to the bank-robbery schema than for irrelevant information. Generally, interpreted the ambiguous info as being consistent with their crime schema. after a crime or other incident. Memory impaired even when the eyewitnesses were warned about the presence of misleading information very shortly after it had been presented. However, they did sever to reduce the misinformation effect.
