Accuracy of eye-witness testimony: Misleading information

Question 1

Key Study: Loftus and Palmer

Answer 1

Car study
Different adjectives
Harsher adjectives the faster they assumed the car was going

Question 2

Post event discussion

Answer 2

Conformity effect: Changing perception after talking to others
Repeat interviewing: Interviewer comments may become incorporated into the record of events.

Question 3

A03: Supporting evidence

Answer 3

Loftus: Bugs Bunny cut outs.
College students who visited Disney land as a child were asked to evaluate the advertising material about DisneyLand containing misleading information about bugs bunny (not a disney character) or Ariel (not introduces at the time of their childhood). Participants assigned to these groups were more likely to have said they shook hands with these characters than the control group

Question 4

A03: EWT in real life

Answer 4

Criminal justice system.

Question 5

A03: Individual differences

Answer 5

Elderly people find it harder remembering the source of their information, even though their memory for the information itself is inimpaired

Question 6

A03: It may be response bias

Answer 6

Leading questions changed memory. However, Bowers found that pps are not susceptible to misleading information if the information is presented in the same order as the original data