Instruction
Overview: For this assignment, you will create a presentation based on this week’s CogLab experiment from your textbook, the False Memory lab. This
assignment will give you some additional practice using PowerPoint, which you will need to use for your final presentation due in Module Eight. Use the Practice
Presentation Template to complete this assignment.
Prompt: Clinical psychologists have recently made claims, based on forensics, that memories and perceptions are unreliable, and that individual memory can be
biased, altered, or manipulated by others. For this assignment, first, read Chapter 8 in your textbook, then watch the video and read the article on the Innocence
Project website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZsckuKiH94&t=202s. (Then, complete the CogLab 5.0 Experiment #33 on false memory). (lab work was base on remembering words that pop up on the screen). I will upload my results.
Next, based on your readings and your results on the false memory lab experiment, answer the following questions using one slide per question:
Slide One: Before this week, did you believe eyewitness accounts were reliable? Have your thoughts changed? If yes, how? If not, why not?
Slide Two: How can certain individual memories and perceptions be biased, altered, or manipulated by others?
Slide Three: Provide an example of an instance when your own memory proved to be false. What did you learn about perception from that experience?
Summarize your answer on each slide and go into detail on the Notes page. Back up your opinion with evidence from your lab results, from Chapter 8
reading, from the eyewitness misidentification article and video, and from your own experiences. You may also search for and incorporate studies or news stories
into your presentation.