Skip to main content

Sage Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > law and society > psychology and law > eyewitness memory > source monitoring and eyewitness memory
... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > law and courts > law and society > psychology and law > eyewitness memory > source monitoring and eyewitness memory

Preferred term

source monitoring and eyewitness memory  

Definition

  • The source monitoring (SM) framework is an evolving set of ideas developed by Marcia Johnson and her collaborators regarding the cognitive processes by which individuals attribute mental events (thoughts, images, feelings) to particular origins (e.g., memory, perception, creativity, etc.). Most of the research motivated by the SM framework has had to do with how people identify the specific sources of mental events that they experience as episodic memories (e.g., how a witness differentiates between memories of a crime vs. [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law; Source Monitoring and Eyewitness Memory]

Broader concept

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/source_monitoring_and_eyewitness_memory

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD