Accuracy of eye-witness testimony: Anxiety Flashcards
Anxiety has a negative effect
Anxiety has had a bad effect on memory and performance
Key study: Johnson and Scott: Procedure
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
Key study: Findings
49% accuracy in pen condition
33% accuracy in knife condition
Anxiety has a positive effect
emotionally important to would be more remembered.
Bank robbery - victims remembered more than bystanders
A03: WFE may not be anxiety
Pickel: surprise rather than anxiety.
Identification was least accurate in the high surprise conditions rather than high threat
A03: Individual differences
Bothwell: personality characteristics - either labelled neurotic or stable. stable pps showed rising levels of accuracy as stress increased.