Loftus And Palmer- Evaluation

Question 1

What are the 3 main evaluation issues?

Answer 1

• low mundane realism
• demand characteristics
• lab based

Question 2

Low mundane realism

Answer 2

Therefore low levels of ecological validity because the experiment involved an artificial task by watching videos of they were real life car crashes it might have a more emotional attachment

Question 3

Demand characteristics

Answer 3

The participants were palmers students and therefore they most liekly knew and santed to give their tecaher the right answer to aid her investigation

Question 4

What did palmer do the try and minimise demand characteristics?

Answer 4

Added a filler question at the beginning to mislead the ps

Question 5

No population validity

Answer 5

Cant generalise the results to a wider population because she only tested on her students

Question 6

Ethical issue

Answer 6

The ps dont really have a right to withdraw because they might feel like they are obligated to take part because they are her students