Social Psychology Law Model, Ch. 8, 9, 12

Acquisition

The process by which people notice and pay attention to information and their environment

Storage

The process by which people maintain in memory information they have acquired from the environment

Retrieval

The process by which people recall information stored in their memories

Own-race bias

The tendency for people to be better at recognizing faces of their own race than those of other races

Reconstructive memory

The process whereby memories of an event become distorted by information encountered after the event occurred

Source monitoring

The process whereby people try to identify the source of their memories

Recovered memories

Recollections of a past event, such as sexual abuse, that have been forgotten or repressed

False memory syndrome

Remembering a past traumatic experience that is objectively false but is nevertheless accepted by the person as true

Story model

The theory that jurors try to fit the evidence that they hear at trial into a coherent story, and ultimately reach a verdict that best fits the story they have created