PSY1012-5256 Ch 8
Which of the following statements about eyewitness testimony is correct?
Eyewitness testimony is vulnerable to the power of suggestion.
If I am looking at a snake and processing the fear caused by the snake, what part of my brain am I using?
amygdala
What is the set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time?
memory
Which of the following is a way police have changed their interrogation techniques to lower the risk of false memory syndrome? Police have ________.
modified the way witnesses are questioned
When experiencing ________ amnesia, you experience loss of memory for events that occurred prior to the trauma. When experiencing ________ amnesia, you cannot remember new information.
retrograde; anterograde
According to Baddeley and Hitch, ________.
short-term memory itself has different forms