Eye Witness

Question 1

What is eye witness testimony affected by

Answer 1

Leading questions
Anxiety
Weapon focus
Reconstructive memory

Question 2

What is reconstructive memory and why can this happen

Answer 2

It’s a change of events due to schemas because they are mental units of knowledge that correspond to frequently encountered people objects of situations can dispose of unacceptable information that doesn’t fit this knowledge causing a change in events

Question 3

Explain the inverted U theory for anxiety

Answer 3

Low anxiety low recall
Medium peak recall
Too high low recall

Question 4

How does weapon focus work

Answer 4

High anxiety levels due to seeing something dangerous or unusual in a situation caused you to block the surroundings out and focus on the weapon or object

Question 5

What study shows how leading questions affect eye witness testimony

Answer 5

Loftus and Palmer
 45 students in lab
7 clips
Smashed collided hit bumped contacted
Smashed 40.8
Contacted 31.8

Words change perception of how serve accident was

150 clip of car 
How fast was it going when smashed or hit and none
Smashed class when smashed 
Adds false details to a memory

Question 6

What is eye witness tesistomy

Answer 6

The recall of events a eye witness gives to say what happened