Eyewitness Testimony: Misleading Information

Question 1

what did Loftus and Palmer look at?

Answer 1

how EWT can be distorted

Question 2

what did Loftus and Palmer use?

Answer 2

leading questions where certain answers is implied in the question

Question 3

Loftus and Palmer: study name

Answer 3

looking into eyewitness testimony

Question 4

Loftus and Palmer: study date

Answer 4

1974

Question 5

Experiment 1 - Method: participants where shown

Answer 5

a film of a car crash

Question 6

Experiment 1 - Method: after the film, they were

Answer 6

asked a series of questions

Question 7

Experiment 1 - Method: what was the main question used?

Answer 7

how fast was the car going when they _____?

Question 8

Experiment 1 - Method: verb used

Answer 8

hit
smashed
collided
bumped
contacted

Question 9

Experiment 1 - Results: verb that caused the highest estimated speed

Answer 9

smashed (41 mph)

Question 10

Experiment 1 - Results: verb that caused the lowest estimated speed

Answer 10

collided (32 mph)

Question 11

Experiment 2: Method: how many groups were the participants split into?

Answer 11

three

Question 12

Experiment 2: Method: Group 1 verb

Answer 12

smashed

Question 13

Experiment 2: Method: Group 2 verb

Answer 13

hit

Question 14

Experiment 2: Method: Group 3

Answer 14

didn’t have any indication of the vehicles speed

Question 15

Experiment 2: Method: a week later the participants were asked

Answer 15

did you see any broken glass

Question 16

Experiment 2: Results: was there any broken glass?

Answer 16

no

Question 17

Experiment 2: Results: group 1

Answer 17

more likely to say there was glass then group 2

Question 18

Experiment 2: Conclusion: leading questions can affect

Answer 18

the accuracy of people’s memories of an event

Question 19

Experiment 2: Evaluation: EWT causes implications in

Answer 19

police interviews

Question 20

Experiment 2: Evaluation: the study is an

Answer 20

artificial experiment

Question 21

Experiment 2: Evaluation: watching a video isn’t

Answer 21

emotionally arousing

Question 22

Experiment 2: Evaluation: another study found that if the participants thought the film was real

Answer 22

they gave more accurate speed estimates

Question 23

Experiment 2: Evaluation: the experimental design might cause

Answer 23

demand characteristics

Question 24

Experiment 2: Evaluation: the leading questions could lead to the participants

Answer 24

to figure out what the experiment was about