Psych 458 - Questions to ponder
4/2/99 (Plous Chs. 3 & 4)
1. What evidence is there that memory is reconstructed? What were the two results demonstrating this in the Loftus & Palmer study? What benefits might there be to having our memories be this way?
2. What is the hindsight bias? How does the hindsight bias relate to Plous=s decision to put the reader survey at the beginning of the text?
3. How can the hindsight bias be reduced? What was one strategy Fischhoff attempted to use to reduce the hindsight bias that didn=t work?
4. What is the primacy effect? When is there a recency effect rather than a primacy effect?