Eyewitness Testimonies and Memory Biases

In the section about the misinformation effect, how did researchers misinform their subjects and alter their memories?

• Asked purposely misleading questions

• Told them that the correct video was the wrong video

• Told them the correct video was the one they chose

• played a different video for each member of the study and had them agree on one answer

Forgetting someone's name or a word that you know despite feeling like you're so close to getting it is an example of....

• the close-but-not-quite effect

• The misinformation effect

• The forgetful effect

• The tip-of-the-tongue effect

Double blind procedures are when....

• The investigator knows who the perpetrator is beforehand but the witness
  observing the lineup does not

• The perpetrator knows who the investigator is beforehand but the witness
  observing the lineup does not

• Neither the investigator leading the lineup nor the eyewitness know who the
  perpetrator is beforehand

• Nobody knows who anybody is going in.

It is easy to distinguish between False memories and true memories.

• True

• False

In a study on false memories, a quarter of participants had been
successfully convinced that they had experienced the false event researchers
suggested to them.

• False

• True

Which is not a type of bias people experience when met with leading questions?

• Response Bias

• Falsehood Bias

• Substitution Bias

People are more likely to believe new information if they agree with it

• True

• False

Why is the internet so good at confirming misinformation biases in people?

• No one is a trustworthy source so its all lies

• There is too much information to factor online and anyone can be a source

• There is not enough information to factor online and not enough sources

• Because the internet is brainwashing our kids

People would be able to live their life faster and more attentively without Schemas

• True

• False

Assimilation is the schemata formation process that fits new information into pre-existing schema

• True

• False