What is amnesia?
When people cannot recall their own name or identity
What is video memory?
when human memory works like a video camera, accurately recording the events we see and hear so that we can review and inspect them later
What is permanent memory?
Once you have experienced an event and formed a memory of it, that does not change
What was the war of ghosts?
- it was a native american myth story
What was the war of ghosts study?
- they read the story to participants
- asked to recall two times
- once 20 hours after and the other 2 years after
What were the results of the war of ghosts study?
- most people remembered the gist of the story
- memory was distorted to fit one’s knowledge
What is a DRM task?
It is when participants are presented with a list of related words and then asked to remember as many words
What is a lure in a DRM task?
A word with a similar frequency that subjects report hearing it on the list
What is the basic format of a post-event misinformation event?
- see the event
- receive misinformation
- memory test for event
What were the immediate result of the broken glass study?
- subjects who heard smash estimated a higher speed
- The ones who heard hit estimated a higher speed than those who heard contact
What were the results one week later in the broken glass study?
- when asked if there was broken glass:
- 32% in smashed group said yes
- 14% in hit group said yes
-in reality, there was no broken glass
What were the results of the yield study?
- group 1:
- asked if car passed when stopped at yield
- 75% said they saw yield
- 25% incorrectly said they saw stop sign - group 2:
- misled by asking if they saw the stop sign
- 41% said they saw yield
- 59% said they saw stop sign and most did not know they were misled
What happened in the lost-in-the-mall study?
- College students were asked to remember childhood events after being presented by real and fake events
What is the most significant cause of wrongful convictions?
eyewitness misidentification
T or F: without an eyewitness, evidence is often not credible to a jury
true: 18% conviction rate with no eyewitness & 72% conviction with one
What are the 2 problems with line-ups?
- relative judgements
- feedback after ID
What are relative judgements?
- tendency to pick person who most resembles the perpetrator relative to the other choice, even if none actually match
What is feedback after ID?
- positive feedback after ID exaggerates confidence of the ID
What are the different results when there is a high and low stress interrogator?
- greater correct ID in low-stress condition
- reduction in false ID when tested with sequential method
What is the familiarity phenomena?
- dissociation between content of memories and sense of familiarity or ownership of the memories
What is deja vu?
the feeling that you’ve seen/ experienced this situation before, even while knowing that it cannot have happened before
What is capgras syndrome?
- a rare condition where someone believes that a loved one is not who they say they are
What is pathological familiarity?
patient louis was regularly overwhelmed by feelings of familiarity when he encountred situations that were entirely novel
