Forgetting

Question 1

What can be a cause of forgetting information from the arm

Answer 1

Millers 7+/- 2 new information can be pushed out

Question 2

What is retrieval failure

Answer 2

Occurs when information is avaivlsble but not accessible due to absence of ques

Can be external/ context
Or internal/state

Question 3

What is eye witness testimony and what is it affected by?

Answer 3

The account of what happened from an eye witness of a crime Anxiety stress
Leading questions
Reconstructive memory
Weapon focus

Question 4

Why do people who have high anxiety struggle at recall?

Answer 4

Because of the inverted U theory high levels of stress equal low performance

Question 5

Why does reconstructive memory effect an eye witness testimony

Answer 5

Because schemas are mental units of knowledge that correspond to frequently encountered people objects or situations. Change unacceptable information which can lead to a change of recalled events

Question 6

What happens in weapon focus

Answer 6

A person blocks all there surroundings out and concentrate on a weapon because of high levels of anxiety from seeing something potentially dangerous

Question 7

How can leading questions affect eye witness testimony? What proof do we have of this

Answer 7

Because the question can plant ideas in your head due to schemas
To test this Loftus and Palmer (1974) asked people to estimate the speed of motor vehicles using different forms of questions.
Proceedure 1- 45 student 7 films
smashed / collided / bumped / hit / contacted
Smashed 40.8
Contacted 31.8
Change perception of accident

2 150 students
50 Smashed or 50 hit 50 just broken glass
Smashed saw broken glass

Question 8

Who suggested forgetting could be to do with interference and what types are there

Answer 8

Baddly in 1999
Proactive- old with new
Retroactive- new with old