influencing memory 1

Question 1

What is amnesia?

Answer 1

When people cannot recall their own name or identity

Question 2

What is video memory?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What is permanent memory?

Answer 3

Once you have experienced an event and formed a memory of it, that does not change

Question 4

What was the war of ghosts?

Answer 4

• it was a native american myth story

Question 5

What was the war of ghosts study?

Answer 5

• they read the story to participants
• asked to recall two times
  - once 20 hours after and the other 2 years after

Question 6

What were the results of the war of ghosts study?

Answer 6

• most people remembered the gist of the story
• memory was distorted to fit one’s knowledge

Question 7

What is a DRM task?

Answer 7

It is when participants are presented with a list of related words and then asked to remember as many words

Question 8

What is a lure in a DRM task?

Answer 8

A word with a similar frequency that subjects report hearing it on the list

Question 9

What is the basic format of a post-event misinformation event?

Answer 9

1. see the event
2. receive misinformation
3. memory test for event

Question 10

What were the immediate result of the broken glass study?

Answer 10

• subjects who heard smash estimated a higher speed
• The ones who heard hit estimated a higher speed than those who heard contact

Question 11

What were the results one week later in the broken glass study?

Answer 11

• 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

Question 12

What were the results of the yield study?

Answer 12

• 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

Question 13

What happened in the lost-in-the-mall study?

Answer 13

• College students were asked to remember childhood events after being presented by real and fake events

Question 14

What is the most significant cause of wrongful convictions?

Answer 14

eyewitness misidentification

Question 15

T or F: without an eyewitness, evidence is often not credible to a jury

Answer 15

true: 18% conviction rate with no eyewitness & 72% conviction with one

Question 16

What are the 2 problems with line-ups?

Answer 16

1. relative judgements
2. feedback after ID

Question 17

What are relative judgements?

Answer 17

• tendency to pick person who most resembles the perpetrator relative to the other choice, even if none actually match

Question 18

What is feedback after ID?

Answer 18

• positive feedback after ID exaggerates confidence of the ID

Question 19

What are the different results when there is a high and low stress interrogator?

Answer 19

• greater correct ID in low-stress condition
• reduction in false ID when tested with sequential method

Question 20

What is the familiarity phenomena?

Answer 20

• dissociation between content of memories and sense of familiarity or ownership of the memories

Question 21

What is deja vu?

Answer 21

the feeling that you’ve seen/ experienced this situation before, even while knowing that it cannot have happened before

Question 22

What is capgras syndrome?

Answer 22

• a rare condition where someone believes that a loved one is not who they say they are

Question 23

What is pathological familiarity?

Answer 23

patient louis was regularly overwhelmed by feelings of familiarity when he encountred situations that were entirely novel