This part of the frontal lobe was more active in people when viewing pictures they took themselves, compared to viewing pictures that other people had taken.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
100
This brain area has been linked to improved memory consolidation.
What is the amygdala?
100
The process by which people determine the origins of memory, knowledge or beliefs.
What is source monitoring?
100
This person pioneered research in the area of misinformation effect.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
100
Statement made by a person who was present at the crime about what they saw during the event.
What is eyewitness testimony?
200
Autobiographical memories can elicit emotions, which are heavily involved in this part of the brain / limbic system.
What is the amygdala?
200
The tendency for eyewitnesses of a crime to focus attention on a weapon, which causes poorer memory for other things that are happening.
What is weapons focus?
200
This occurs when the source of a memory is misidentified.
What is source misattribution?
200
The misleading information that causes the misinformation effect.
What is misleading postevent information (MPI)?
200
A procedure used for interviewing crime scene witnesses that involve letting the witness talk with minimal interruption.
What is a cognitive interview?
300
The enhances memory for adolescence and young adulthood found in people over 40.
What is reminiscence bump?
300
Memory for the circumstances surrounding hearing about shocking highly charged events.
What is flashbulb memory?
300
This is unconscious plagiarism of the work of others.
What is cryptoamnesia?
300
This occurs when more recent learning interferes with memory for something that happened in the past.
What is retroactive interference?
300
This type of lineup is less likely to produce a false conviction.
What is sequential line up (instead of simultaneous)?
400
This hypothesis proposes that periods of rapid change that are followed by stability cause stronger encoding of memories.
What is cognitive hypothesis?
400
A research technique in which recall is tested immediately after an event and then retested at various times after the event.
What is repeated recall?
400
Inference that occurs when reading or hearing a statement leads a person to expect something that is not explicitly stated or necessarily implied by the statement.
What is pragmatic inference? (based on knowledge gained by experience)
400
MPI can cause interference and what other kind of error?
What is source monitoring errors?
400
An increase in confidence of memory recall due to confirming feedback after making an identification, as in a police lineup.
What is post-identification feedback effect?
500
These are life events that commonly occur in a particular culture.
What is cultural life script?
500
The idea that we remember some life events better because we rehearse them.
What is the narrative rehearsal hypothesis?
500
This is a type of schema which is a conception of the sequence of actions that usually occurs during a particular experience.
What is a script?
500
Research based on Loftus's research has shown that it is relatively easy to implant these.
What are false memories?
500
What actually happens + person’s knowledge, experiences, and expectations is known as this.