Memory error
Wrongful conviction
an innocent person is found guilty of a crime they did not commit, because of mistakes like inacurrate memories or false evidence.
Source monitoring
Where you remember where information came from or you could be confusing it with something you imagined
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
a condition where a person experiences excessive worry about many aspects in life
post-event misinformation effect
happens when new information after a specific event changes how a person remembers the original event.
Wishful thinking bias
is when people believe something is true just because they want it to be true
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
experiencing the same event again after being traumatized in that event
How does the post event misinformation effect work?
First a person experiences an event, then they are given false information, therefore they recall false information than the actual information from the event they saw
What happens when we use wishful thinking bias?
getting evidence from unreliable sources
Social phobia
Being anxious in every social situation
What causes the misinformation effect?
Retroactive interference
Reality Monitoring
the ability to tell the difference between an event that actually happened or something you only imagined
What are some potentials of memory errors?
Memory is not always accurate, Pressure from society can make people remember things in a biased way, and it is hard to know how accurate childhood memories are.
Retroactive interference
difficulty remembering old information because of interference from the new information
Recovered-memory perspective
a person can forget a traumatic event for many years and later remember it again as an adult
False- memory perspective
a lot of the recovered memories are mostly inaccurate