What Actually Happened Video for Midterm 2 Flashcards
In the video “What Actually Happened,” volunteers were asked to look at a painting for one minute and memorize it. After two months they were asked to recall the painting and replicate it. What was the result?
Every volunteer included pink since it was provided on the palette, even though the original had no pink. Every volunteer also incorporated their own interpretation into their painting– to one man, the original looked like a bicycle wheel, so his painting reflected that.
When the man recalled a bicycle wheel, it exemplified the fact that we remember what something ___ us of, not the thing itself.
Reminds.
What did the chain of witness experiment exemplify?
Information gets lost, and detail is added to things that didn’t exist. For example, children play in the park, so they associated the football with children.
Why are old interview methods flawed?
The interviewer projected their views onto the interviewees, and questions were leading questions.
In a cognitive interview, if a person doesn’t know the answer, they are likely to…
Make up facts.
Cognitive interviews aim to increase the ___ and ___ of information gained by interviewing ___ witnesses.
Quality, quantity, cooperative.
What is the first rule in cognitive interviews?
Let the interviewees do the talking.
It is important that cognitive interviews have ___; do not start and stop.
Fluidity.
In cognitive interviews, it is beneficial to establish a ___, so that people can remember the events better.
Setting.
By placing people back into the scene and the setting, they can ___ more.
Recall.
In a cognitive interview, it is important to work with a ___ of events that is comfortable with the interviewee.
Sequence.
A man saw that the victim of the crime treated a woman badly previously. This resulted in him mislabelling the victim as the assailant. What is this an example of?
Injecting values into memory.
Give an example of how the mind makes up inferences, and makes up ideas to satisfy an answer.
When witnesses see someone get stabbed, they make up inferences like “there was a knife,” even if there was not.
