Eyewitness Testimony: Misleading Info

Question 1

Leading Questions

Answer 1

Leading questions suggest a desired answer

Loftus and Palmer - critical question containing hit, smashed, collided, bumped or contacted, speed estimates highest with the verb smashed. The verb altered the actual memory of the event; pps more likely to report broken glass. Post-event discussion may contaminate eyewitness memory of event

Question 2

Conformity Effect

Answer 2

pps recollection influenced by discussion with others (Gabbert et al)

Question 3

Repeat Interviewing

Answer 3

especially problematic with child witnesses (LeRooy et al)