chapter 8 example #13253

memory for circumstances surrounding hearing about shocking events.

misleading information presented after a person witnesses an event changes how the person describes an event later.

inference that occurs when reading or hearing a statement leads a person to expect something that is not explicitly stated or necessarily implied by the statement.

a persons knowledge about what is involved in a particular experience.

eyewitnesses to a crime tend to focus attention on a weapon, which causes worse memory for other things happening.

it is a memory for the circumstances surrounding how a person heard about an emotional event that stays vivid but not necessarily accurate.

repeated testing.

reduce subjective sense of confidence in the memory

extreme vividness of a memory does not mean it is accurate

visual cortex

some memories are shaped by our prior knowlege, expectations, and stereotypes.

there is a modest correlation between confidence and accuracy (sometimes confidence predicts accuracy but not under all conditions.

tendency for eyewitnesses to a crime to focus attention on a weapon

to worsen