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12 Cards in this Set
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Acquisition
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the process by which people notice and pay attention to information in the environment; people cannot perceive everything that is happening around them, so they acquire only a subset of the information available in the environment
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Storage
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the process by which people store in memory information they have acquired from the environment
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Retrieval
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the process by which people recall information stored in their memory
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Own-Race Bias
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the finding that people are better at recognizing faces of their own race than those of other races - the race they have most contact with
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Reconstructive Memory
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the process whereby memories for an event become distorted by information encountered after the event has occurred
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Source Monitoring
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the process whereby people try to identify the source of their memories
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Polygraph
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a machine that measures people's psychological responses (e.g. heart rate); polygraph operators attempt to tell if someone is lying by observing how that person responds physiologically while answering questions
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Cognitive Interview
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a technique whereby a trained interviewer tries to improve eyewitnesses' memories by focusing their attention on the details and context of the event
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Recovered Memories
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recollections of an event, such as sexual abuse, that have been forgotten or repressed
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False Memory Syndrome
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remembering a past traumatic experience that is objectively false but nevertheless accepted as true
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Deterrence Theory
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the theory that people refrain from criminal activity because of the threat of legal punishment, as long as the punishment is perceived as relatively severe, certain, and swift
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Procedural Justice
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people's judgements about the fairness of the procedures used to determine outcomes, such as whether they are innocent or guilty or a crime
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