Anxiety

Question 1

Define Anxiety ?

Answer 1

Strong emotional and physicals state that effects EWT

Question 2

How does this effect the accuracy of EWT?

Answer 2

Extreme anxiety negatively effects EWT as witnesses only focus on certain aspects of an events

So there recall is limited

Question 3

Who did the research supporting how anxiety effects the accuracy of EWT

Answer 3

Johnsons and Scott

Question 4

What type of experiment did Johnson and Scott conduct ?

Answer 4

Lab experiment

Question 5

Where were ppts either placed?

Answer 5

High anxiety weapon focus

Or low anxiety condition

Question 6

What were the ppts told ?

Answer 6

To wait outside the room

Question 7

What happened in the h.a.c?

Answer 7

Ppts heard arguments and sound of breaking glass from room and man walked out carrying knife covered in blood

Question 8

What happend in the l.a.c ?

Answer 8

Ppts heard an argument and a man walked out with grease on his hands

Question 9

What did they find for the Lac and the hac?

Answer 9

Lac correctly identified the man leaving the room 49% of time

hac correctly identified correctly 33% of the time

Question 10

Conclusion of hac and lac?

Answer 10

Anxiety cause weapon focus reducing accuracy of recall

Question 11

Who was rts the negative affects of anxiety on the accuracy of EWT ?

Answer 11

Valentine and mesout

Question 12

What did valentine and memsout do ?

Answer 12

Divided ppts into high and low anxiety groups
They took part in the london dungeon labarinth
Asked to immediately recall physical details of actor

Question 13

What was found ?

Answer 13

High anxiety lowered the accuracy of EWT

Question 14

How did the particpents have to identify the person who left the room ?

Answer 14

From 50 photographs

Question 15

What research contiridicts that anxiety reduces accuracy of EWT

Answer 15

Research by christianson and Hubinette

Question 16

How many people were interviewed the the real life bank robbery ?

Answer 16

58 real life witnesses

Question 17

What are the 2 cases of people on the bank robbery

Answer 17

Some were directly threatened

Some were bystanders

Question 18

What was found with those that were directly threatened ?

Answer 18

Had even more accurate Accounts

Question 19

How does this contradict anxiety affecting EWT?

Answer 19

IRL cases of those who had high anxiety they were able to focus on key aspects of the event

Question 20

Ao3 yerkes and Dodson law strength what does it propose ?

Answer 20

Anxiety and it effects in EWT don’t have a simple relationship

Diffrent level of anxiety can effect EWT

Two little anxiety or to much anxiety can have a poor effect on accuracy of EWT

Question 21

By having an optimum level of anxiety what goes higher ?

Answer 21

Accuracy of EWT goes higher

This helps explain the difference between Johnson and Scott’s participant and hubinettes