Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience, 3rd Edition

Memory for “Exceptional” Events • 211 the results for the fl ashbulb and everyday memories (● Figure 8.8a). This result supports ...

212 • CHAPTER 8 Everyday Memory and Memory Errors (0.33; ● Figure  8.9a). A particularly striking difference between memory for ...

The Constructive Nature of Memory • 213 Rubin, 2009). However, whatever mechanism is involved, perhaps the most important outcom ...

214 • CHAPTER 8 Everyday Memory and Memory Errors The War of the Ghosts One night two young men from Egulac went down to the riv ...

The Constructive Nature of Memory • 215 Source monitoring is the process of determining the origins of our memories, knowl- edge ...

216 • CHAPTER 8 Everyday Memory and Memory Errors test, participants were told that all of the names they had seen in the fi rst ...

The Constructive Nature of Memory • 217 The experimental design of Marsh’s experiment is shown in ● Figure 8.11. Participants re ...

218 • CHAPTER 8 Everyday Memory and Memory Errors How do your answers from the fi ll-in-the-blank exercise on page 237 compare t ...

The Constructive Nature of Memory • 219 participants in the control group, who had read that John was looking for the nail. Appa ...

220 • CHAPTER 8 Everyday Memory and Memory Errors if you want to send the letter by registered or certifi ed mail, giving your l ...

The Constructive Nature of Memory • 221 TAKING STOCK: THE PLUSES AND MINUSES OF CONSTRUCTION The constructive property of memory ...

222 • CHAPTER 8 Everyday Memory and Memory Errors essential for our survival—its great speed even when faced with incomplete inf ...

Memory Can Be Modified or Created by Suggestion • 223 METHOD Presenting Misleading Postevent Information The usual procedure in ...

224 • CHAPTER 8 Everyday Memory and Memory Errors MPI as Replacing the Original Memory Loftus explains the misinformation effect ...

Memory Can Be Modified or Created by Suggestion • 225 Although the mechanism that causes the misinformation effect is still bein ...

226 • CHAPTER 8 Everyday Memory and Memory Errors What is most interesting about this participant’s response is that he didn’t r ...

Why Do People Make Errors in Eyewitness Testimony? • 227 others by inaccurate memory for what was perceived. We will fi rst look ...

228 • CHAPTER 8 Everyday Memory and Memory Errors in the “shoot” condition (the gun was fi red; ●  Figure  8.19). Apparently, th ...

Why Do People Make Errors in Eyewitness Testimony? • 229 operate on a more subtle level. Consider the following situation. A wit ...

230 • CHAPTER 8 Everyday Memory and Memory Errors witness’s initially uncertain response turns into an “absolutely positive” res ...