Psychology 2020A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Polygraph

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2020A/B
• Professor: Stelian Medianu

Document Summary

Acquisitions: 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. Storage: the process by which people store in memory information they have acquired from the environment. Retrieval: the process by which people recall information stored in their memory. Own race bias: the findings that people are better at recognizing their own race than those of others races. Reconstructive memory: the process by which memories of an event become distorted by information encountered after the event has occurred. Source monitoring: the process by which people try to identify the source of their memories. Polygraph: a machine that measures peoples physiological responses (e. heart rate) polygraph operators attempt to tell if someone is lying by observing how that person responds physiologically while answering questions.