Memory in the Courtroom

Also called “Source Monitoring Error”.

Uncompleted or interrupted tasks are remembered better than completed ones.

Frequent testing of material that has been committed to memory improves memory recall.

The tendency to displace recent events backward in time and remote events forward in time, so that recent events appear more remote, and remote events, more recent.

The tendency to estimate that the likelihood of a remembered event is less than the sum of its (more than two) mutually exclusive components.

Memory issues for those managing Intellectual disability, autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s Disease, dissociation, trauma, alcohol or marijuana use.

Perceiving oneself responsible for desirable outcomes but not responsible for undesirable ones.

Phenomena that memories encoded with relation to the self are better recalled than similar information encoded otherwise

Information is better remembered if it is generated from one’s own mind rather than simply read.

Schemata is a mental structure of preconceived ideas, a framework representing some aspect of the world, or a system of organizing and perceiving new information.