eyewitness testimony- misleading info

Question 1

misleading information

Answer 1

incorrect info given to an eyewitness usually after the event

Question 2

leading questions

Answer 2

questions that encourage certain answers because of the way they are phrased

Question 3

post event discussions

Answer 3

people discuss their experiences with co-witnesses, their accounts can be affected

Question 4

loftus and palmer- leading questions

Answer 4

asked questions about the video using verbs: hit, bumped, collided, smashed, contacted.
ppts asked with more intense verbs = higher speeds + more severe damage than those with less intense verbs = wording of questions can distort eyewitness testimony + influence memory recall.

Question 5

gabbert et al- post event study

Answer 5

ppts in pairs watched crime clips separately in diff pov. they discussed what they saw and recalled it. 71% recalled aspects they did not see

Question 6

strength- real life application

Answer 6

loftus= leading questions can have very distorting effect so police need to be aware of phrasing questions in interviews as that can have real consequences

Question 7

weakness- demand characteristics

Answer 7

loftus and palmer study- if ppts didn’t know answer they may have guessed- social desirability bias = inaccurate

Question 8

weakness- artificial tasks

Answer 8

watched a video about an accident which is diff to seeing one in real life= they only tell us about EWT in labs, not real life