Science-Effortful vs. Automatic Encoding

Effortful vs. Automatic Encoding

Step 1:  Given what you know about effortful vs. automatic encoding, state-dependent and mood-congruent memory, interference, and the constructive nature of memory (including misinformation, imagination, and source amnesia effects), how reliable would you predict eyewitness testimony of a crime to be, and why?

Step 2:  Locate a website on “Eyewitness Identification” and learn more, then write a brief summary along with your answer to the question posed in Step 1 above.  Be sure to include the URL for the for the website you located in your paper!

Your brief summary and evaluation of the reliability of eyewitness testimony (integrating the above-mentioned issues) should be 2-3 pages (double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-point Times New Roman font).  Unless you have explicit permission otherwise, you must complete this assignment individually; working with someone else, providing information to someone else , or asking for assistance from anyone but the course instructor is prohibited.  All of the information you include should be paraphrased with NO direct quotes (see NOTE below). If you use any sources other than those assigned in this class, you must include appropriate in-text citations in APA style and then include an APA-style Reference(s) list on a separate page at the end (reference list page does not count toward the 2-3 page count).

Submit your write-up in the “Major Assignment – Eyewitness Identification” Assignment Tool.