evaluation for misleading information

Question 1

Evaluation

useful real life application?

Answer 1

• STRENGTH= has hugely important uses in the real world where the consequence of inaccurate EWT can be very serious
• Loftus=believes that leading questions can have such a distorting effect on memory that police officers = need to be very careful about how they phrase their questions during interviews
• research into EWT= one area where psychologists believe they can make an important positive difference to the lives of real ppl

Question 2

Evaluation

the tasks are artificial?

Answer 2

• LIMITATION= loftus and palmers study= pps watched film clips of car accidents
• this is a very different experience from witnessing a real life accident= mainly because these clips lack the stress of real lifer accidents
• LIMITATION = because studies that use artificial tasks = may tell us very little about how leading questions affect EWT in cases of real accidents/crimes.

Question 3

Evaluation

Individual Differences?

Answer 3

-evidence = that older people are less accurate than younger people when giving eyewitness reports
E.G Rhodes= found that ppl in age groups 18-25 and 35-45 were more accurate than people in the group 55-78

Question 4

Evaluation

it may be response bias?

Answer 4

Loftus and palmer = found that leading questions changed the original memory HE Bekerian = suggest it might be response bias

• found that pps were less accurate on the later question when they had been given inconsistent data
• ^^suggests that the order of questions= had a significant effect»> therefore memory change was due to response bias not storage