... distortion of our memory for when things happened. The less that people can remember about an event, then often the older the memory is thought to be. Brown et al. (1985) investigated this by asking a set of people to date 50 news events (relating to the period 1977-82) that they would likely either know ... to associate the event with some landmark date to help us, for instance the event happening on the same day as the day you got married. Rubin et al. (1986), in an analysis of a number of studies found that when elderly people look back over their lives, there is a reminiscence bump. T...

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... 's pronunciation. As explanation, "evidence shows that the particular motor skill of speech pronunciation is best developed at a younger age."(Steinberg: 208) Another possible reason is offered by Flege (Theo Bongaerts et al, 1997) that "one of the main cause of foreign accents is the increasing tendency of L2 learners, once they have established the phonetic categories for their L1, to perceive L2 ... language than children, although no evidence is available in classroom situation. My reason is that "adults, more cognitively secure, appear to operate from the solid foundation of the fir...

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... "misinformation effect". An area of great controversy in our society is the practice of eyewitness testimonies. Many innocent individuals have been placed in prison as a result of inaccurate testimonies. Fruzzetti et al (1992) articulated that even a very low rate of false identifications have lead to hundreds of innocents being convicted of crime every year. Factors that influence the accuracy of eyewitness accounts ... how we perceive and recall personal information. However, in some cases memories are recalled in incredible detail and are very accurate. When this occurs it is known as...

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