Chapter Nine Witnessing And Remembering

Question 1

Semantic memory

Answer 1

Remembering factual information

Question 2

Procedural memory

Answer 2

Remembering how to perform actions

Question 3

Prospective memory

Answer 3

Remembering actions that need to be completed in the future

Question 4

Episodic memory

Answer 4

Remembering events that happened in the past

Question 5

Autobiographical memory

Answer 5

Remembering events that are of personal relevance

Question 6

Encoding

Answer 6

Processing information from one of the senses into memory

Question 7

Storage

Answer 7

Storing information in memory

Question 8

Retrieval

Answer 8

Recovering information that is stored in memory

Question 9

Leading questions

Answer 9

Questions that suggest or imply an answer

Question 10

Mean

Answer 10

An average that is calculated by adding together all the items to be averaged and then dividing the total by the number of items

Question 11

Demand characteristics

Answer 11

The cues in an experiment they participants can use to work out how the experimenter expected them to behave

Question 12

False memory

Answer 12

A memory for an event that did not actually take place but was instead only suggested to have occurred

Question 13

Control group

Answer 13

Participants who are allocated to the ‘baseline’ or control condition

Question 14

Open ended question

Answer 14

A question that does not suggest or imply an answer sync usually invites the witness to provide as much detail as they can

Question 15

Cognitive interview

Answer 15

A procedure for interviewing witnesses that draws on research on memory and incorporates a number of retrieval strategies