Affecting eyewitness testimony

Question 1

What is a leading question

Answer 1

A question that implies information about an event/crime that WRONGLY contaminates the individuals memory, such as ‘what colour was the youth’s jacket?’ implies the perpetrator was a youth. (1)

Question 2

Loftus and Palmers research 16m

Answer 2

Research into leading questions was conducted by Loftus and Palmer. The had a sample of 45 american students splt into 5 groups of 9, watched a clip of a car crash and asked them each group “how fast were the cars travelling when they x each other” with different verbs.