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Psychology-Memory
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- 1The Cognitive Interview (CI)A police technique for interviewing witnesses, encouraging them to recreate the event to increase accessibility of stored information
- 2Misleading InformationA question that suggests to the witness a desired answer, or leads the witness towards a specific answer
- 3Eyewitness Testimony (EWT)Evidence provided in court by a person who was present at the incident
- 4Central ExecutiveWMM: Monitors and coordinates all other mental functions in working memory
- 5Phonological LoopWMM: Encodes speech sounds in working memory, typically involving maintenance rehearsal
- 6Visuo-spatial SketchpadWMM: Encodes visual information in terms of separate objects and the arrangement of these in the visual field
- 7Episodic BufferWMM: Integrates information from the other components and also LTM and temporarily stores it
- 8Word-length EffectThe observation that people remember lists of short words better than lists of long words
- 9Weapon-focus EffectObservation that a weapon may distract a witness's attention from other details of a crime, explaining why witnesses of violent crimes often have poor recall of the event
- 10Yerkes-Dodson LawEWT: Performance improves as arousal increases to an optimum point, where performance begins to decline
- 11Short-term MemoryDuration: seconds/minutes
Capacity: limited
Encoding: Acoustic/ visual - 12Long-term memoryDuration: Hours/days/years
Capacity: Unlimited
Encoding: Semantic - 13DurationA measure of how long a memory lasts for
- 14CapacityA measure of how much information can be held in memory
- 15EncodingThe way information is stored in memory
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- Flashcards on Psychology-Memory, created by hannahkate08 on 23/11/2013.
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