Loftus and Palmer #1

Question 1

what is loftus and plamer of the spec

Answer 1

a classic study

Question 2

why is loftus and palmer used

Answer 2

to measure the reliablity of EWT

Question 3

When was loftus and Palmers first study

Answer 3

1974

Question 4

what did his two studys investigate

Answer 4

the affect of loading questions on memory

Question 5

what was the aim of loftus and Palmers 1st study

Answer 5

to investigate whether information provided to and EW after the event would influence their memory of that event

Question 6

specifically what wa the aim of this study

Answer 6

whether leading questions would influence the estimates of speed on a vechile among EW

Question 7

how many pp where used

Answer 7

45

Question 8

what where the pp

Answer 8

students

Question 9

what where the pp shown

Answer 9

7 short film clips of a car accident

Question 10

thwn what happened in the procedure

Answer 10

pp asked to give account of the accident they saw, they where given a question aire with specific questions about the accident

Question 11

what was standerdised about this procedure

Answer 11

all pp given the same questionaire

Question 12

who was not given the same question

Answer 12

experimental group

Question 13

what where experimental group given

Answer 13

one group of 9 given a critical question “ about how fast where the cars going when they hit each other ?”

Question 14

what about remaining groups

Answer 14

remaining groups given same question but the verb ‘hit’ was replaced with ‘smashed’ collided’ ‘bumped’ and ‘contacted’

Question 14

what where the findings

Answer 14

the results showed that those asked ‘smashed’ estimated the speed of the car to be 8.7mph faster than those asked contacted and was the mean largets speed over all at 40.5mph

Question 15

what do these finding show and what did loftus and palmer conclude

Answer 15

that leading questions distort recall