Leading Questions

Question 1

Strength: practical applications

Answer 1

Strength of research, led to improvements in criminal justice system, and development of cognitive interview, CI avoids use of leading questions by using techniques such as recall everything, important part of applied psychology, leads to more accurate testimonies and improves the lives of people effected by crime

Question 2

Weakness: lacks mundane realism

Answer 2

Loftus and Palmer’s research uses artificial task of watching a video of a car crash, difficult to generalise findings of research, FOSTER ET AL found eyewitnesses of a real event understand the consequences of giving accurate information, ppts watching a video do not have the same motivation, lowers external validity