memory in the real world
- Created by: taneshakatrese
- Created on: 14-03-14 09:43
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- memory in the real world
- Loftus and Palmer (peed of car)
- lacks ecological validity
- real world application
- support from stop sign
- Loftus and Palmer (broken glass)
- shown a film/ week later asked if there was broken glass
- smashed more likely to recall glass
- post-event information affects inital storage
- effect of anxiety
- Johnson and Scott (pen and knife)
- 49% accurate identifying the man with pen
- 33% accuracy with the knife
- lab experiment/ weapon focus effect
- Christiansen and Hubinette
- questionnaire 58 real witnesses
- greater threat, more accurate recall/detail
- questionnaire 58 real witnesses
- Johnson and Scott (pen and knife)
- effect of age
- Yarmey (age differences in accuracy)
- older adults (45-65) less confident in recall of a confecderate
- not less accurate than younger adults
- not generalisable (own age bias)
- extraneous varable to confidence
- Parker and Carranza (school children and mock crime)
- more likely to choose someone than to adults , likely to make more errors.
- Yarmey (age differences in accuracy)
- cognitive interview
- report everything
- Mental reinstatement of context
- changing the order
- changing the perspective
- proven effective/useful with older witnesses
- memory improvement
- Loci,Mind maps, Acronyms, Acrostics
- lack mundane realsim
- Loftus and Palmer (peed of car)
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