Leading Questions Flashcards
What is a strength?
It has practical applications
What are the practical applications?
The principles that leading questions can influence the accuracy of EWT had led to improvements in the criminal justice system and the development of the cognitive interview.
What is the cognitive interview?
The interviewer avoids the use of leading questions and uses a variety of techniques to increase the accuracy of EWT e.g it uses open questions such as ‘recall everything about the event’ to trigger as many details about the event as possible and increase the accuracy of EWT without it being affected by misleading information
How could the practical applications have a positive effect on the economy?
If witness statements are more accurate this could lead to a quicker conviction of the correct perpetrator meaning less taxpayers money is spent on multiple police interviews or re-trials and this money could be used elsewhere to benefit society
What is a criticism of research into the effects of leading questions?
It lacks mundane realism
Why does Loftus and Palmer’s research lack mundane realism?
It uses the artificial task of watching a video of a car crash
What is it difficult to do with L&P’s research?
To generalise the findings as Foster found that eyewitnesses of a real event understand the important consequences of giving inaccurate information however participants watching a video do not have the same motivation to give accurate testimonies - lowering the external val
