Accuracy of eye-witness testimony: Anxiety

Question 1

Anxiety has a negative effect

Answer 1

Anxiety has had a bad effect on memory and performance

Question 2

Key study: Johnson and Scott: Procedure

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Key study: Findings

Answer 3

49% accuracy in pen condition

33% accuracy in knife condition

Question 4

Anxiety has a positive effect

Answer 4

emotionally important to would be more remembered.

Bank robbery - victims remembered more than bystanders

Question 5

A03: WFE may not be anxiety

Answer 5

Pickel: surprise rather than anxiety.

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

Question 6

A03: Individual differences

Answer 6

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