Exam 15: Social Psychology in Action 3

Jason is a jury member hearing a robbery case.He listens to a witness testify against the suspect.Based on evidence by Bond and DePaulo (2006)presented in your text about people's ability to tell when someone is lying,how accurate would Jason be in telling if the witness was lying?

When research participants confuse whether they heard information on the radio or read about it in the newspaper,it is an example of problems with

_______ refers to the process by which people store some,but not all,information from the environment in memory.

When Loftus and Harley (2005)asked participants to try to identify a celebrity from 23 metres away,about ________ of participants were accurate.

Research has shown that typical law officers are _______ college students at determining when witnesses are lying.

A person in a lineup who is not a suspect is known as a

Keeping in mind the research of Patricia Tollestrup and her colleagues (1994)who studied the accuracy of victims of and eyewitnesses to actual crimes,all other things being equal,which robber below is most likely to be accurately described by eyewitnesses?

According to research by Saul Kassin (2007,2008),one of the major problems in interrogation situations that can lead to false confessions is

The own-race bias refers to the finding that

You've just read Applied Module 3 (Social Psychology and the Law)and have been summoned for jury service.Assuming that you were assigned to the jury trying an assault case,unlike most other jurors,you would be most likely to trust the testimony of a witness who

Loftus (1974,1983)conducted a mock trial-study in which she presented the participants with a robbery scenario followed by either physical evidence,eyewitness testimony,or both.Her results suggest that

Pennington & Hastie (1990)found that people on a jury who have a minority point of view often

Elizabeth Loftus and her colleagues (1978)showed participants a series of slides that depicted an automobile accident.Some participants saw a yield sign in the photos and other participants saw a stop sign.Later,participants were asked questions that contained information that either matched or did not match what they had actually seen (i.e.,a stop sign versus a yield sign).Results demonstrated that participants were least accurate in remembering what they had actually seen when

You come home from work and find pieces of broken glass on the floor.You realize that your favorite vase was broken.Immediately,you blame your new puppy,without even noticing that your toddler's teddy bear is lying on the floor near the broken glass.The fact that you didn't see the teddy bear probably is due to

Margo was frightened and confused when the robber appeared at the convenience store where she works.It seemed that the only thing she could see was the gun he had pointed right in her face.Later,when Margo serves as an eyewitness,she may not be reliable because of problems she had at the _______ stage of memory processing.

The courts and psychologists have a difference of opinion on

Which of the following is a shortcoming of relying on hypnosis to improve eyewitness testimony?

One day your roommate asks you if you like the new sculpture outside of the Fine Arts Building.You tell him that you like the sculpture there,but you later realize that there is no sculpture there.It is actually in front of the Administration building.It seems your roommate's _______ question yielded a _______.

_______ refers to the process by which people recall information stored in memory.

Our minds are not video cameras that objectively record and play back all events we see and hear.One reason eyewitness information is often unreliable is that one or more memory processes can be affected.What are those three processes and what factors can bias them?