memory conformity

Question 1

conformity examples:

Answer 1

• asch experiment
• realistic scenes kitchen: high vs low expectancy items: confederate introduces new objects
• blame conformity: eyewitness leaving house and you watching scene. 2 men bump into each other- who do you blame?
• Manipulation of confidence and credibility

Question 2

Collaborative inhibition

Answer 2

• study separately, do test together, poorer performance
• nominal group: all items recalled
  collaborative group: fewer items recalled.
• war of ghosts fairytale example
• WHY?
  social loafing and diffusion of responsibilities. retrieval disruption hypothesis: each individual relies on different strategies and cues. not all may be compatible.

Question 3

socially shared retrieval induced forgetting

Answer 3

“Silence is not golden”
- speaker engages in retrieval practice
- listener either monitors rate of accuracy or fluency
- RIF effect only in accuracy not fluency
we remember what others remember and forget what others forget