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This document is a court transcript from August 10, 2022, detailing the direct examination of a witness named Loftus. Loftus, likely an expert on memory, describes the retention and retrieval stages of memory and clarifies for the questioner that an 'event' in the acquisition stage can be something directly witnessed, heard, or even a memory of a past conversation.
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| Name | Role | Context |
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| Loftus | Witness |
Mentioned in the header as the subject of the direct examination. Provides the answers ('A.') in the transcript.
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| SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. | company |
Listed at the bottom of the page as the court reporting agency.
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The document is a transcript of a formal Q&A session, characteristic of a legal proceeding where an attorney (Questioner) is examining a witness (Loftus).
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"So our job as researches in this field is to identify the psychological factors that come into play at each of these three stages that can affect the accuracy of what somebody is telling you."Source
— Loftus
(Explaining the goal of psychological research into the stages of memory (retention and retrieval).)
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"It can be a robbery, for example, which somebody is seeing something and maybe hearing some conversation, but it might just be memory from a conversation or memory for some other experience that ends up being critical where you would like to know what happened."Source
— Loftus
(Answering a question about what constitutes an 'event' in the acquisition stage of memory.)
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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 761 Filed 08/10/22 Page 122 of 246 2417
LCGCmax4 Loftus - direct
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1 time is passing and we enter the second stage, and this is
2 called the retention stage. After some time has passed, a
3 person might be asked to remember the event or the events, to
4 answer questions, to subject himself to an interview, to
5 testify. These are acts of retrieval where somebody is trying
6 to retrieve information about the event.
7 And so now we enter that third stage, which is the
8 retrieval stage. So our job as researches in this field is to
9 identify the psychological factors that come into play at each
10 of these three stages that can affect the accuracy of what
11 somebody is telling you.
12 Q. Let me stop you for a second. When you were referring to
13 the acquisition stage, you mentioned an event. In the category
14 of event, is it just something that one sees or can it be that
15 something that one actually personally experiences or hears?
16 A. Well, first of all, it could be just -- it could be what
17 somebody sees and hears. It can be a robbery, for example,
18 which somebody is seeing something and maybe hearing some
19 conversation, but it might just be memory from a conversation
20 or memory for some other experience that ends up being critical
21 where you would like to know what happened.
22 Q. So one could actually be an observer or an actual
23 participant or a hearer, someone who hears something in that
24 acquisition stage?
25 A. Yes. Sometimes people, for example, are crime victims and
2 called the retention stage. After some time has passed, a
3 person might be asked to remember the event or the events, to
4 answer questions, to subject himself to an interview, to
5 testify. These are acts of retrieval where somebody is trying
6 to retrieve information about the event.
7 And so now we enter that third stage, which is the
8 retrieval stage. So our job as researches in this field is to
9 identify the psychological factors that come into play at each
10 of these three stages that can affect the accuracy of what
11 somebody is telling you.
12 Q. Let me stop you for a second. When you were referring to
13 the acquisition stage, you mentioned an event. In the category
14 of event, is it just something that one sees or can it be that
15 something that one actually personally experiences or hears?
16 A. Well, first of all, it could be just -- it could be what
17 somebody sees and hears. It can be a robbery, for example,
18 which somebody is seeing something and maybe hearing some
19 conversation, but it might just be memory from a conversation
20 or memory for some other experience that ends up being critical
21 where you would like to know what happened.
22 Q. So one could actually be an observer or an actual
23 participant or a hearer, someone who hears something in that
24 acquisition stage?
25 A. Yes. Sometimes people, for example, are crime victims and
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