Friday, January 23, 2009

Reconstructive memory



Loftus & Palmer's eyewitness testimony of an automobile destruction What is memory?
Reconstructed & perceived


Experiment 1

How the change of
verbs in the leading question distorted participants' memory?
Smashed, collided, bumped,
hit, contacted 'About how fast were the cars going when they _____ into each other?'
Any demand characteristics or response bias?

Experiment 2
Smashed, hit & control groups to avoid demand characteristics in Exp1
1 week later,
'Did you see any broken glass?'

Memory
consists of information processed during perception & information received later.

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