skip to main content
LOTERRE

LOTERRE

Search from vocabulary

Content language

| español français
Search help

Concept information

Preferred term

detection of deception: reality monitoring  

Definition(s)

  • People sometimes try to determine whether they have actually experienced an event they have in mind, or whether this memory is based on imagination. The processes by which a person attributes a memory to an actual experience (external source) or imagination (internal source) is called reality monitoring (RM). [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law; Detection of Deception: Reality Monitoring]

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-W5S9XNN5-H

Download this concept: