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Year 1 Debates : - Coggle Diagram
Year 1 Debates :
Loftus and Palmer:
Usefulness
Useful: Train police and courts to not use leading questions in police questioning as can alter memory of an event leading to them being an unreliable witness i.e. when asked if see smashed glass in second some recalled yes even though there was none
Not Useful: Not useful to anyone other than police or courts as leading questions aren't usually used in everyday life. Sample all students, assumes other ages or groups memory will respond in the same way
Reductionism: Lab experiment reduced reconstructive memory to be texted by a single verb in questioning showing a cause and effect
Holism: All real factors like individual factors or the situation ignored: participants may have no knowledge about car speeds, participants may have forgotten clips etc so guessed a random speed
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Determinism v Free Will
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Free Will
Not all participants followed same pattern in experiment 2 although 16/50 recalled seeing smashed glass with smashed verb compared to 7/50 in hit condition. 34 used their free will to say no to seeing smashed glass.
Psychology as a science
Scientific
Controlled lab experiment which fulfills the scientific criteria of theory, control, evidance and replication
Not scientific:
Relies on self report of participants telling you what they think but what they tell you isn't always what they think or remember as cognitive processes can't be seen
Grant et Al:
Reductionism v Holism
Reductionist
Assumes all memory is due to the environment the information is learnt and recalled in and other factors have no influence
Holism
No indication of how participants feel on the day i.e. if hungry or stressed memory will be worse, no indication of normal intellectual ability and may be other factors influencing like how the participants revise
Determinism v Free Will
Determinism
Assumes memory is entirely context dependent so the environment we learn in will influence how much information can be recalled
Relies on participants answering the recall and recognition tests truthfully, may use their free will and lie or guess. Results may be influenced by the participants choosing to or to not remember not the environment itself
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