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Source Monitoring

Source monitoring is identified as an unconscious psychological assessment (attribution) human perform to determine whether the origins of one’s memory, knowledge, or beliefs are real, and from a credible source. In summary, monitoring what is real. Individuals often attribute mental experiences to something dreamed, imagined or perceived events, etc. Individuals utilize different sources to establish the basis of their memory or knowledge. Habitually, people use configural information and facial recognition to recognize other people, a processing system of faces in bran known as a “sum of parts” perception. This aids individuals to recognize childhood friend as a real individual, not a character from a novel. Linguistic and categorical information is utilized as well. Source monitoring is divided into external source monitoring and internal source monitoring.

 External Source Monitoring 

External source monitoring emphasizes knowledge or sources from an individual’s environment. An example of this is recalling which professor gave you which assignment yesterday.

 Internal Source Monitoring 

Internal source monitoring emphasizes on internal factors and information. An example of this is distinguishing between something said aloud and something said whilst dreaming.

Source Memory

The concept of source memory overlays with the knowledge of memory for context. Source memory refers to the recalling of the source of learned information such as knowledge of when or where something was learned. Often, memories are triggered by contextual information (i.e. time and place). A failure in source memory can be associated with aging, stress, intoxication, or distractibility is a phenomenon where an individual acquires fragments of memory without the recollection of how or when the fragment of memory was attained.

References

Alleydog.com. 2020. Source Monitoring Definition | Psychology Glossary | Alleydog.Com.

https://www.alleydog.com/glossary/definition.php?term=Source+Monitoring

Tabak, J. A., & Zayas, V. 2012 (n.d.). The Roles of Featural and Configural Face Processing in Snap Judgments of Sexual Orientation.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0036671

Pandey, J., 2011. Source Memory. [online] SpringerLink.

