EW are placed under lots of stress when witnessing an event, our ability to remember may become impaired under these circumstances
Inverted U Theory low/high arousal
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Schemas
Reconstructive memory occurs when we try to make sense of what we have seen and interpret it. Therefore we do not recall information the exact same way it was encoded
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Misinformation Effect
Loftus found that exposure to leading questions can decrease accuracy of someones recall of an event
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Weapon focus
Eyewitnesses attention on the weapon and excludes other details of the crime.
Recall of the offender is slightly reduced due to this focus
Due to attentional narrowing
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Stress
Seeing a weapon during a crime may lead arousal past its optimum
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Attention
Rather than a source of stress, it is a focus of attention that distracts memory from other details of the crime
Weapons are dramatic, and so draw attention from the perpetrator
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Card 2
Front
Reconstructive memory occurs when we try to make sense of what we have seen and interpret it. Therefore we do not recall information the exact same way it was encoded
Back
Schemas
Card 3
Front
Loftus found that exposure to leading questions can decrease accuracy of someones recall of an event
Back
Card 4
Front
Eyewitnesses attention on the weapon and excludes other details of the crime.
Recall of the offender is slightly reduced due to this focus
Due to attentional narrowing
Back
Card 5
Front
Seeing a weapon during a crime may lead arousal past its optimum
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