Eyewitness Memory

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1. What is confirmation bias in the context of eyewitness memory?

  • Event memory distorted by observer expectations
  • Crime reporting accuracy increased by threat level
  • Event memory heightened by victims expectations
  • Crime reporting memory decreased by observers intelligence
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2. What is incidental learning?

  • occurs when participants process stimuli without realising their memory for it will be tested later
  • occurs when participants know their memory for stimuli will be tested

3. Who proposed Explanatory Role Hypothesis?

  • Chroback and Zaragoza (2013)
  • Johnson et al (1993)
  • Eakin et al (2003)

4. According to the Explanatory Role Hypothesis, false fabrications do what...

  • “switch” causal gaps in eyewitness recollection of an event
  • “fill in” causal gaps in eyewitness recollection of an event
  • “remove” causal gaps in eyewitness recollection of an event

5. High perceptual load is associated with

  • average event memory
  • poorer event memory
  • greater event memory
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