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1EYEWITNESS TESTIMONYA legal term for evidence given in court/a police investigation by someone who has witnessed a crime or accident and recounts the details from memory
2LEADING QUESTIONSA question phrased in such a way to prompt a particular answer.
3SCHEMAS'packet' of knowledge that correspond to frequently encountered people/objects/situations.
-effective because they remove the need to store similar info more than once
-Schema driven processing increases the efficiency or cognitive economy in which the memory operates
-BY forcing new situations to fit into our schemes mean we might distort the,- then become incorporated into recall.
4RECONSTRUCTIVE MEMORYHuman memory does not store info exactly as was presented. We gather info from the gist of it- we make sense of information and try to fit them into schemas.