Accuracy of eye-witness testimony: Anxiety Flashcards

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Anxiety has a negative effect

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Anxiety has had a bad effect on memory and performance

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Key study: Johnson and Scott: Procedure

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Pps sat in a waiting room and heard an argument.
Then somebody came out running with either a pencil or a bloody knife. Pps were later asked to identify the man with the weapon

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Key study: Findings

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49% accuracy in pen condition

33% accuracy in knife condition

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Anxiety has a positive effect

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emotionally important to would be more remembered.

Bank robbery - victims remembered more than bystanders

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A03: WFE may not be anxiety

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Pickel: surprise rather than anxiety.

Identification was least accurate in the high surprise conditions rather than high threat

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A03: Individual differences

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Bothwell: personality characteristics - either labelled neurotic or stable. stable pps showed rising levels of accuracy as stress increased.

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