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Recall, recognition, and confidence patterns in eyewitness testimony

✍ Scribed by Malen Migueles; Elvira Garcia-Bajos

Book ID
101279313
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
113 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
0888-4080

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✦ Synopsis

The diversity of methods, contents and tests used in the study of eyewitness memory may have contributed to discrepancies in results in this ®eld. In this experiment, using incidental or intentional learning, we examine the recall and recognition of actions and details concerning the central and peripheral information of a kidnapping. A similar pattern emerges in free recall, hits and recognition con®dence: scores are much higher in actions than in central details and there are almost no dierences between peripheral actions and details, showing that the distribution of attentional resources is dierent for actions and details in central than in peripheral information. Although in recall the degree of error was low, in recognition false alarms, especially those in central actions, reduced the level of accuracy to even lower than chance performance in both incidental and intentional groups, also showing that subjects accept false but plausible contents with a high level of con®dence.

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