Eyewitness memory is a person's episodic memory for a crime or other witnessed dramatic event. Eyewitness testimony is often relied upon in the judicial...
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Eyewitness testimony is the account a bystander or victim gives in the courtroom, describing what that person observed that occurred during the specific...
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In eyewitness identification, in criminal law, evidence is received from a witness "who has actually seen an event and can so testify in court". The Innocence...
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Cognitive interview (category Memory)
methods that increased the accuracies of eyewitness testimony. They found that when participants were trained in memory retrieval techniques, the participants...
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Confabulation (redirect from Synthetic memory)
becomes the truth: The effects of self-generated misinformation on eyewitness memory". Memory. 12 (1): 14–26. doi:10.1080/09658210244000072. PMID 15098618....
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their underdeveloped memory capacity and overall brain physiology. Researchers found that eyewitness memory requires high-order memory capacity even for...
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self-report the memory as being particularly vivid. For this reason, eyewitness memory is often listed as an example of flashbulb memory. However, in a...
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innocent people." In 45% of the cases, eyewitness mistakes were responsible. The formal study of eyewitness memory is usually undertaken within the broader...
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prominent situations involving social interactions, such as eyewitness testimony. Research on memory conformity has revealed that such suggestibility and errors...
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List of cognitive biases (redirect from List of memory biases)
likelihood of events with greater "availability" in memory, which can be influenced by how recent the memories are or how unusual or emotionally charged they...
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Memories and False Memories. Oxford University Press. French, Christopher C. (2003). "Fantastic Memories: The Relevance of Research into Eyewitness Testimony...
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presence impairs actual eyewitness memory. This is extremely significant when one considers how jurors tend to overvalue eyewitness testimony. This finding...
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accusation Rape Child sexual abuse Police perjury Mistaken identity Eyewitness memory Eyewitness identification Cross-race effect Misinformation effect Tampering...
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PMID 28368148. Christianson SA (September 1992). "Emotional stress and eyewitness memory: a critical review". Psychological Bulletin. 112 (2): 284–309. doi:10...
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first-hand experience Eyewitness memory Eyewitness testimony Eyewitness (1956 film), a British film starring Donald Sinden Eyewitness (1970 film), a film...
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A facial composite is a graphical representation of one or more eyewitnesses' memories of a face, as recorded by a composite artist. Facial composites...
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suppression and eyewitness memory". Jigyasa. 6 (4): 196–203. Richards, Jane M.; Gross, James J. (2006). "Personality and emotional memory: How regulating...
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effects of discussion and delay on eyewitness memory.," Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. Loftus, Elizabeth F. Memory: Surprising New Insights Into How We...
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Eidetic memory (/aɪˈdɛtɪk/ eye-DET-ik), also known as photographic memory and total recall, is the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision—at...
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R. C. L. Lindsay (section Children’s Eyewitness Memory)
psychologist who studies the area of psychology and law, and focuses on eyewitness memory. In 1974, he received his bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto...
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increase or decrease these errors, in an eyewitness situation. In terms of eyewitness testimony, judgements of memory credibility are particularly important...
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Misinformation effect (category Memory)
reliability of memory. Understanding the misinformation effect is also important given its implications for the accuracy of eyewitness testimony, as there...
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Negative affectivity (section Memory)
decreases accuracy of eyewitness memory. These findings are consistent with prior knowledge that stress and emotion greatly impair eyewitness ability to recognitive...
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influence of race on eyewitness memory.". In Lindsay R, Ross D, Read J, Toglia M (eds.). Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology: Memory for People. Lawrence...
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Forgetting curve (redirect from Strength of memory)
the subject's memory incorporates after-acquired information. There is considerable research in this area as it relates to eyewitness identification...
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accuracy associated with eyewitness memory. It has been argued that memory implantation studies are not applicable to real life memories of trauma such as childhood...
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Gary L. Wells (category Memory researchers)
Gary Leroy Wells is an American psychologist and a scholar in eyewitness memory research. Wells was a professor at Iowa State University with a research...
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traditionally thought to show the influence of Peter's preaching and eyewitness memories. He is also mentioned, under either the name Peter or Cephas—in Paul's...
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Mistaken identity (redirect from Mistaken eyewitness identification)
defendant was correct. Many experiments have demonstrated how the memories of eyewitnesses can be manipulated. In one study by Elizabeth Loftus, subjects...
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accusation Rape Child sexual abuse Police perjury Mistaken identity Eyewitness memory Eyewitness identification Cross-race effect Misinformation effect Tampering...
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