EWT - Misleading Information

Question 1

what are examples of misleading info?

Answer 1

Leading questions
Post-event discussion

Question 2

Leading Q’s study

Answer 2

loftus and palmer 1974

Question 3

loftus and palmer 1974

Answer 3

Conducted a lab experiment with 45 students to see how the phrasing of a question would impact the answer
The students watched 7 different clips of car accidents that happened at varying speeds and were then asked some follow up questions
All questions asked were critical/leading questions e.g. About how fast were the cars travelling when they hit each other?
The verb used (underlined above) was a random 1 of 6, all deemed to be differing levels of volatile

Question 4

what are the results for the loftus and palmer studies? about the glass

Answer 4

• smashed, 16 people reported seeing broken glass whilst 34 people said they did not see any.
• hit, however, are inversed as only 7 people reported broken glass with 43 people denying.

Question 5

what were the words and their mean speed?

Answer 5

contacted 31
bumped 34
hit 38
collided 39
smashed 40