& Richard Atkinson (1975). 1.2 Starting with psychology course manual‚ Chapter 3.2 page 53 - Experiment carried out by Weston Bousfield (1953). 1.3 Starting with psychology course manual‚ Chapter 3.3 page 60 - Experiment carried out by Elizabeth Loftus (1974‚ 1975).
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Chapters 1-3 Identifying Facts 1. What doesn’t Huck Like about the Widow Douglas? 2. What does Jim think has happened to him as a result of the trick that Tom plays onHow does Huck know that the drowned body that is found is not his Pap? 3. When Tom’s gang raids the “Spanish merchants and rich Arabs” what is it that they actually do? 4. Where does Miss Watson take Huck to pray? Interpreting Meanings 5. How would you compare the characters of the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson? Who
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Validity of Recovered Memory Memory is fragile; people forget many things like the lunch they just ate‚ while believing they saw a celebrity yesterday because they imagined it. So how do people know what is real‚ what is fake‚ and what did they simply forget? Recovered memories are an even bigger mystery as they were not previously attainable. How much can people trust these recovered memories if real memory is so unreliable? The validity regarding recovered memories is questionable at best. People
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acquisition‚ retention‚ and retrieval stages of memory according to Loftus? Stage one is acquisition (encoding) in which the perception of the original event is put into the memory system. Second is the retention (storage) stage‚ the period of time that passes between the event and the recollection of a particular piece of information. And third is the retrieval stage in which a person recalls stored information. According to Loftus how might an interviewers questions affect memory? Memories are
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retrieval failure (e.g.‚ via inhibition) as the key mechanism. It is easy to demonstrate that memory for an event can be affected if misleading information is subsequently received. For instance‚ in many eyewitness testimony experiments (e.g.‚ Loftus‚ Miller‚ & Burns) participants have been shown a sequence of slides depicting‚ say‚ a car accident at a junction where there is a Stop sign. If participants subsequently read a description of the accident which refers to a Yield sign‚ they will
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slaves themselves were born into the system simply accepting their fate as inferior beings. The reader sees this strange predicament in almost every situation Huck is faced with‚ from his temporary stay with the Widow Douglas to his encounter with Mrs. Loftus. During his stay with the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson‚ Huck is constantly pestered to be more well-mannered and
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There‚ he meets a lady in a store named Judith Loftus. Mrs. Loftus tells Huck about the rewards out for Jim and Pap. Huck also learns of Mrs. Loftus’s husband going to Jackson’s Island to look for Jim. Mrs. Loftus believes Jim is the one that killed Huck and expresses her prejudice towards him by telling her husband to hunt Jim. In this case‚ Jim is being seen as nothing more than
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article‚ “Sleep Deprivation and False Memories”‚ at the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California and Department of Psychology at Michigan State University‚ researchers Steven J. Frenda‚ Lawrence Patihis‚ Elizabeth F. Loftus‚ Holly C. Lewis‚ and Kimberly M. Fenn‚ studied and recorded the effects of sleep deprivation on memory. In the beginning of the article‚ the researchers discuss how false memories can be entirely made-up‚ or how people may take some true information
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eyewitness testimonies’. Some of them have shown that anxiety can impair the accuracy of these testimonies. However‚ other studies have proven that anxiety and stress can actually lead to a more detailed and accurate recall of the event witnessed. Loftus and Burns (1982) showed that anxiety can impair the accuracy of eyewitness testimonies. One group of participants were a showed a film of a crime with no violence. Another group were shown the same film but with a violent incident where a boy was
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this approach has tended to use a scientific approach through the use of laboratory experiments. A strength of using laboratory experiments is that they are high in control therefore researchers are able to establish cause and effect. For example Loftus and Palmer were able to control the age of the participants‚ the use of video and the location of the experiment. All participants were asked the same questions (apart from changes in the critical words)‚ and the position of the key question in the
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