Loftus And Palmer

Question 1

What is a schema?

Answer 1

A schema is a organised package of information that stores knowledge of the world. It contains stereotypes of expectations.

Question 2

Why is it important to discover if leading questions can alter memory?

Answer 2

Because eyewitness testimony is a key part of many cases in a court of law, therefore we must ensure the eyewitness is not lead to believe something different to what they saw and falsely accuse the wrong person

Question 3

Experiment 1- AIM

Answer 3

To investigate if using different verbs to describe a collision between two cars would affect the estimates of speed

Question 4

For experiment 1 the sample were?

Answer 4

45 students from the university of Washington

Question 5

E1- The five verbs used were?

Answer 5

Smashed, contacted, bumped, collided, and hit

Question 6

40.5 mph

Answer 6

Smashed average estimate

Question 7

What was the collided and bumped average estimated?

Answer 7

Collided-39.3mph

Bumped-38.1mph

Question 8

Hit average estimate?

Answer 8

34mph

Question 9

Contacted was the lowest average estimate at…?

Answer 9

31.8mph

Question 10

E2 AIM

Answer 10

To investigate if memory distortions or response bias was the origin of altered speed estimates

Question 11

E2 sample

Answer 11

150 university students, UOW

Question 12

E2- Two verbs used?

Answer 12

Smashed and hit

Question 13

Critical question for E2

Answer 13

Did you see any broken glass?

Question 14

How many people in the smashed group answered yes to ‘Did you see any broken glass?’

Answer 14

16

Question 15

How many from the control and hit groups said yes to broken glass?

Answer 15

Hit-7

Control-6

Question 16

What is a leading question?

Answer 16

A question that suggests a path of/a specific answer