Evaluating Accuracy Of Eyewitness Testimony: Misleading Information

Question 1

Supporting evidence for the effect of misleading information:
Braun et al (2002)

Answer 1

college students were asked to evaluation information about Disneyland and given misleading information about Bugs Bunny or Ariel and found that when they went to Disneyland they reported that they shook hands with either of the characters despite Bugs Bunny and Ariel NOT being at Disney land

Question 2

EWT in real life:

Foster et al. (1994)

Answer 2

Research into EWT are inaccurate because the same emotions aren’t aroused if time was real. They found that if participants thought they were WATCHING a real life robbery, their identification of the robber was more accurate

Question 3

Individual differences:

Schacter et al (1991)

Answer 3

found that elderly people have difficulty remembering the source of their formation and thus more prone to misleading information