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    “TheUnforgettable 16th” I believe every people in this world have at least one unforgettable moment in their life. Birth‚ death‚ wedding or even a surprise could be precious. In my opinion‚ every single birthday in every single years in my life are so precious. But from all those lovely birthdays‚ I got one that has become the most difficult birthday to be forgotten. It was my sixteenth birthday‚ that shocked and also surprised me. It was not because the birthday present or the cake I got‚ but

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    EOutline and Evaluate Factors Influencing Eye Witness Testimony The term ‘eye witness testimony’ refers to an area of research into the accuracy of memory concerning significant events‚ it is legally considered to be a reliable account of events. However‚ research into eye witness testimony has found that it can be affected by many psychological factors such as‚ anxiety and stress‚ reconstructive memory‚ selective attention and leading questions. Anxiety and stress can be associated with many

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    Advertising And The Seven Sins Of Memory Larry Percy Copenhagen Business School INTRODUCTION As if effective marketing communication were not hard enough to achieve‚ even if we succeed in getting our message attended to and processed‚ and a positive intention formed‚ the very nature of memory may step in and upset everything. Memory distortion and plain old forgetting are unfortunate facts of life. The important question‚ however‚ is: can we do anything about it? As with most things‚ if we are

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    THE PROBLEM OF HISTORICAL DISTORTION: A Survey of Literature on Imām Muḥammad ibn `Abd al-Wahhāb as viewed through the Western slant of history By Kazi Zulkader Siddiqui The Problem of Historical Distortion Of the past fourteen centuries of the Islamic civilization‚ its thought‚ its institutions and the personalities who have contributed to its development and glory‚ stagnation and disintegration‚ the historical perspective painted by the Judaeo-Christian West has been markedly distinctive

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    Effect of anxiety in eye witness testimony Eyewitness Testimony refers to witnesses who are asked to give testimonies in court to particular crimes. Anxiety is amongst several other factors that can affect the accuracy of EWT. Depending on the anxiety level a witness has experienced‚ their recall level can either be more or less accurate. Loftus 1979‚ investigated the effect of anxiety on eye witness testimony accuracy. She asked participants to sit outside a laboratory where they thought they

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    Elizabeth Loftus’ false memory study. I chose this study to learn more about all of the innocent people who were falsely accused due to the victims’ or eyewitness’ false memory. I wanted to learn about why and how they could have been sent to jail for 10 plus years for a crime they did not commit. Elizabeth wanted to figure out what it was that could be done to distort a person’s memory. She used the experimental method to help answer her question of the malleability of memories. Loftus showed participants

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    Short-Term Memory Diana Nunez Nicholas Salter‚ Ph.D. Introduction to Psychology Psychology 101‚ Section 8 October 26‚ 2010 Short-Term Memory The short-term memory is the lead to our long lasting remembers. Short-term memory is the second stage in the memory processing (Huffman). The short-term memory is the part of the memory that temporarily stores and processes information from the sensory memory and holds it until it decides if the information will be sent to the third stage or long-term

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    False Memories When engaging in the cognitive processes of recall and recognition‚ we rarely focus on how accurate a memory is when retrieved. Instead‚ we focus on whether we are able to retrieve that memory or not. What many of us do not realize is that it is quite common for us to encode memories differently than the way they occurred. There are also instances where we remember events that never happened‚ and this is quite critical since many‚ if not all‚ of our cognitive processes depend on memory

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    Forgery Authentication Using Distortion Cue and Fake Saliency Map Abstract The widespread availability of photo manipulation software has made it unprecedentedly easy to manipulate images for malicious purposes. Image splicing is one such form of tampering. In recent years‚ researchers have proposed various methods for detecting such splicing. In this paper‚ we present a novel method of detecting splicing in images‚ using discrepancies in motion blur. We use motion blur estimation through

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    Memory- Task 1 Evaluate the usefulness of the three models of memory (multi-store model‚ working memory model and the levels of processing model) and discuss practical implications of memory research. Atkinson and Shiffrin ’s Multi- store Model of Memory (1968) hypothesises that there are three stores for memory; Sensory memory‚ short term memory (STM) and long term memory (LTM). The theory states that a memory passes through each of the stores and that the importance of the memory determines which

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