Eyewitness Testimony: Anxiety

Question 1

What effect does stress have?

Answer 1

Reduces performance on complicated cognitive tasks

Question 2

Johnson and Scott

Answer 2

Weapon focus effect reduces accuracy of face identification

Question 3

Loftus et al

Answer 3

He monitored eye movements during weapon exposure, focus was on the weapon

Question 4

Evolutionary Argument

Answer 4

it is adaptive to remember stress-inducing events

Question 5

Christianson and Hubinette

Answer 5

high-anxiety victims remember most accurately

Question 6

Deffenbacher et al.

Answer 6

Yerkes-Dodson effect explains high accuracy at moderate levels of anxiety and low accuracy when anxiety is high (or low)