Accuracy of eyewitness testimony: Anxiety

Question 1

what is anxiety?

Answer 1

An unpleasant state of emotional/physical arousal

Question 2

what did Yuille and Cutshall conduct?

Answer 2

…conducted a study of a real life shouting in a gun shop in Canada

Question 3

what was the procedure of the study?

Answer 3

• 21 witness but 13 = agreed to take part
• interviews = were held 4 -5 months after the incident + were compared to the police interviews
• accuracy= determined by the number of details reported in each account.

Question 4

What ere the findings of the study?

Answer 4

• witnesses=were very accurate in their accounts
• little change in the amounts of accuracy after 5 months
• pps= who reported the highest stressed= most accurate

Question 5

What is the Yerkes-Dodson law?

Answer 5

Arousal has a negative effect on memory recall when it is very high/low but moderate levels are beneficial