Previous studies showed that collaborative remembering can reduce false memories through a process of mutual error checking, although conclusions were limited by the nature of the memory tasks (very few errors). The present experiments extend these findings to eyewitness memory by using a paradigm designed to increase the frequency of memory errors.
We examined whether stereotype threat affects older adults’ eyewitness memory and whether prior task success can improve older adults’ eyewitness memory. In Experiment 1, older adults were placed under stereotype threat or not; then they viewed a video of a crime and later attempted to recall it. Participants in the threat condition remembered fewer person, object, action, and location details from the video and were less accurate answering questions on a cued-recall task than those who were not under threat.
The Enhanced Cognitive Interview (ECI) is one of the most useful witness
interviews, consisting of 5 techniques (context reinstatement: CR; report everything:
RE, mental imagery: MI, change order: CO and change of perspectives: CP) aimed at
increasing both the quantity and the quality of elements recalled. All the techniques
require mental imagery skills.
The present study investigates the relationship between forward and backward visuospatial
working memory (VSWM) and correct elements recalled through the ECI
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