MEMORY ASSIGNMENT 1
Davis, D., & Follette, W.
C. (2001). Foibles of witness memory in
traumatic/high profile cases. Journal of Air Law and Commerce, 66,
1421-1549. (A publication of the Southern
Through page 45
Davis, D., Vanous, S., &
Cucciare, M. (under review). "Unconscious transference" as an instance of
change blindness. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Entire Article
View Video of Crime Vignette Here View Perpetrator Absent
Lineup
Questions:
1. Explain how witness confidence is
a problem. Include discussion of the relationship of confidence to accuracy and
to juror judgments.
2. What is meant by “depth of
processing”? How is depth of processing relevant to cross racial
identification, change blindness, and automatic processing?
3. List the factors that determine
where attention tends to go. Give an example of your own (not from the article) illustrating
each.
4. What is
meant by change blindness?
5. Explain
the logic behind Davis et al.’s predictions regarding when a “continuous
innocent” and when a “discontinuous innocent” will tend to be more likely to be
misidentified. Include and explanation of what each refers to.
Go to the
following website and go through all of the demos.
http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/djs_lab/demos.html
