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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Recollection (Psychology)"”.
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Witness testimony : the communication of remembered information
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Communication,
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Do actors or observers make better eyewitnesses?
Researchers studying the reliability of eyewitness testimony have focused mainly on criminal rather than civil cases, specifically those including product identification and liability. With numerous lawsuits against product manufacturers (including toxic substances like asbestos), an understanding …
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Memory for Bizarre Imagery: A Storage-Retrieval Analysis
<p>Four experiments were conducted to examine the role that storage and retrieval processes play in the bizarreness effect. The experiments provided a test of Riefer and LaMay's (1992) twolactor hypothesis, which states that bizarre stimuli are retrieved from Meitbry better than common stimuli, but …
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The impact of sequential lineups on unconscious transference: does knowing the number of photos in the lineup matter?
Unconscious transference occurs when a witness misidentifies a familiar but innocent person from a lineup. In Ross, Atkinson, Rosenberg, Pica, and Pozullo (2014), the use of a sequential lineup procedure, in which faces are presented one at a time, drastically reduced the unconscious transference …
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Verbal short-term storage and analysis-by-synthesis of speech : evidence for common mechanisms
<p>Since the late 1950s a great deal of research has been directed toward elucidating the process(es) by which humans retain verbal material for short intervals of time. The purpose of the present paper will be to explore the extent to which such memorial processes can be identified with processes …
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Toward a developmental hypothesis of clustering in free recall
… State University. Dept. of Educational Psychology, 1968
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Semantic Differential Relationships as a Determinant of Clustering
In the past, clustering research has focused primarily on the effect of pre-experimental associations and/or conceptual relationships on clustering in free recall. The present study marks a departure from this trend in that it was designed to determine under what conditions SD relationships among …
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The stories people play : the gender relationship in story recall from newcomers in an organization.
Research continues to document psychological and communicative differences associated with gender. This thesis added to this tradition of research by investigating whether men and women recall different stories prior to entry in the workplace, and the sources of the stories. Questionnaires were …
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The effect of phonological, semantic, and hybrid associates on accurate recall and false memories of adults who stutter : a preliminary study
There are data to suggest that the phonological representations of young children who stutter are less specified than their typically fluent peers. The purpose of the present study is to determine if this apparent difference in phonological encoding persists in adults who stutter. Utilizing a false …
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Effects of child age and type of detail reported on credibility of child abuse allegations
With repeated experiences, children’s reports of an event tend to contain fewer episodic, contextually embedded details and more inconsistencies. In one prior study, children who experienced a play event four times were rated by mock jurors as less accurate and less believable than children who …
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Gender-bias and its influence on the accuracy of eyewitness identification of perpetrators
<p>"Previous research has looked at how eyewitnesses can identify characteristically with victims of crimes, but few have looked at how eyewitnesses identify with the perpetrators in any capacity (Block, Greenberg, & Goodman, 2009). More specifically, few have looked at how gender-bias influences …
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The beach house : a novel and, Exorcising Sarah's ghosts : (re)creating the self : an accompanying essay
This thesis comprises two parts: a creative component consisting of a novel, "The Beach House", followed by an accompanying essay, titled "Exorcising Sarah's Ghosts".
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