CoursePSY405

Week10 of 16

SemesterII

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This week’s topics

Eyewitness testimony: misleading information (Loftus and Palmer) and anxiety (Johnson and Scott)

The factors affecting the accuracy of eyewitness testimony

What you will be able to do

4.4 Explain the factors affecting the accuracy of eyewitness testimony.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain the factors affecting the accuracy of eyewitness testimony.

Study materials

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Course plan

Week 1: Sensory register, short- and long-term memory: capacity, du…
Week 2: The multi-store model (Atkinson and Shiffrin): strengths an…
Week 3: Baddeley's working memory model: central executive, phonolo…
Week 4: Evaluating the working memory model
Week 5: Episodic, semantic and procedural memory defined
Week 6: Distinguishing episodic, procedural and declarative memories
Week 7: Interference theory: proactive and retroactive interference…
Midterm: Midterm evaluation
Week 9: Retrieval failure: encoding specificity, context- and state…
Week 10: Eyewitness testimony: misleading information (Loftus and Pa…
Week 11: The cognitive interview (Geiselman et al.); consolidating m…
Week 12: Applying Processes of Human Memory in practice: case studies
Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
Week 15: Review and coursework completion
Final: Final assessment and submission

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