Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
for the
Memories!
Introduction
http://mercercognitivepsychology.pbworks.com/f/1290909633/memory.jpg
Who?
Elizabeth Loftus
Cognitive Psychologist
What
next?
http://mercercognitivepsychology.pbworks.com/f/1290909633/memory.jpg
presupposition
Something that is implied and must be true for statement to make sense
Experiment I
53%
Experiment II
6.4
Experiment III
17.3%
Experiment IV
29.2
%
15.6
%
8.4%
Real World
Application
It is important to question the reliability of memory as a
resource
Inaccuracy of an eyewitness memory in a court case
Memory is taken through a process from time of event to
trial
Police interviews, dinner-table stories, revisiting
memory after event, and retelling event at trial
Each time a memory is recalled, the neural
pathways are altered
According to National Geographic, in 2014 4.1% of
individuals on trial were falsely convicted
Personal
Application
Works Cited
Hock, R. R. (2013). Forty Studies that Changed Psychology:
Explorations into the History of Psychological Research. Boston:
Pearson Education, Inc.
Ciccarelli, S., White, J. N., (2013). Psychology. Boston: Pearson
Education, Inc.