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PSYC 3850 Exam 2 | Questions with 100% Correct Answers Help me to understand confirmation bias. a tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions During an extremely stressful situation, how is encoding affected? it is often encoded incompletely or inaccurately Discussing w...
Help me to understand confirmation bias.
a tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions
During an extremely stressful situation, how is encoding affected?
it is often encoded incompletely or inaccurately
Discussing what a witness saw to their friends, family, or others potentially can taint
their memory by introducing what?
new and not always accurate details into their memory (happens in post-event
information)
What happens in unconscious transference?
Unconscious transference is when past interactions with someone are confused for
interactions with a criminal. For example, a clerk at a convenience store who is the
victim of a robbery might identify an innocent shopper who frequents the store instead
of the criminal in a line up
According to the in-group/out-group differences hypothesis, when we encounter
someone from the same race or ethnic group as ourselves, we immediately devote our
attention to distinguishing that person from other members of the in-group. This is an
explanation of why we tend to be what?
This is an explanation of why people tend to be better at identifying members of their
own race. The chances of a mistaken identification have been estimated to be 1.56
times greater when the witness and suspect are of different races than when they are of
the same race
other-race effect
Is this statement true or false: Women tend to be superior with regard to making more
accurate eyewitness identifications compared to men.
false- women tend to more accurately recognize other females rather than men faces,
but men recognize both female and male faces equally.
What age groups are more likely to make mistakes in a lineup where the perpetrator is
not present?
young children and older eyewitnesses
What did State v. Henderson decide?
there will be a new set of rules (more than a dozen factors) for cases involving
eyewitness identifications.
, some of these beings things like presence of a weapon, other-race identification, length
of retention, and behavior of the police
Fillers in a lineup should have what types of physical characteristics?
Characteristics that are similar to the others in the lineup to prevent relative judgement
of identification by choosing someone who looks the most like the perpetrator
What happens in a relative judgement?
an eye witness's process of deciding, when looking at a simultaneous lineup, which of
the people shown in the lineup most closely resembles of the perpetrator
Research tends to show that the relationship between the accuracy of an eyewitness'
testimony and the eyewitness' confidence or certainty tends to be what?
fairly low correlation.
Why is asking the witness to provide a statement of certainty before the lineup
administrator provides any feedback important? That is, what is it used for?
It helps eliminate false confidence
Which of the following was found by Brewer and Burke (2002) to have a strong impact
on jurors' verdict decisions?
the witness's level of confidence
Loftus (1974) gave subjects a description of an armed robbery. Eighteen percent
presented with only circumstantial evidence convicted the defendant. When an
eyewitness' identification was provided in addition to the circumstantial evidence, what
percentage convicted the defendant?
72% convicted
Six-year-old Corey is a witness to a crime, and he has been asked to view a lineup.
Unfortunately, the true perpetrator is not in the lineup. Researchers would predict that
Corey, as compared to adults, is likely to make what type of error?
more likely to give a false positive
Loftus and Pickrell (1995) constructed a false story about being lost while shopping at
the age of five. They had subjects read this story, and write about what they
remembered about the event. What approximate percentage of subjects remembered
this event that never happened?
25%
What would be an example of dispositional attribution?
explanations for others' behavior that focus on ability, personality, or even temporary
states (fatigue or luck) to help understand the behavior
Help me to understand cyberstalking.
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