Misleading Information

Question 1

What is misleading information?

Answer 1

Incorrect information given to the eyewitness that may alter a memory after the event.

Question 2

What does misleading information suggest?

Answer 2

A desired response.

Question 3

What is an example of a question asked that is using misleading information?

Answer 3

What colour was the mans tie?

Question 4

What does misleading information alter/manipulation?

Answer 4

The person’s schema.

Question 5

What case study can be used for misleading information?

Answer 5

Yuille and Cutshall’s study of a real life crime.

Question 6

When did Yuille and Cutshall’s case study of a real life crime take place?

Answer 6

1986.

Question 7

What does Yuille and Cutshall’s case study of a real life crime suggest?

Answer 7

ETW is not so easily affected by post event misleading information.

Question 8

What was the real life incident that Yuille and Cutshall looked into in their 1986 case study of a real life crime?

Answer 8

A shooing in the middle of a busy street un Vancouver, Canada where a thief had entered a fun shot, tied up the owner and stolen money and guns.

Question 9

Once the thief had stolen the money and guns, what happened in Yuille and Cutshall’s case study a of real life crime?

Answer 9

The owner managed to get up and take a picture of the licence plate, the thief had not yet entered his car and fired two shots and the owner. The owner then fired 6 shots and killed the thief, the owner recovered from all of his injuries.

Question 10

How many witnesses observed the shooting in Yuille and Cutshall’s case study of a real life crime?

Answer 10

21

Question 11

How many witnesses were interviewed by police in Yuille and Cutshall’s case study of a real life crime?

Answer 11

All of them, 21.

Question 12

How many of the 21 witnesses in Yuille and Cutshall’s case study of a real life crime agreed to a research interview 4 to 5 months after the incident.

Answer 12

13.

Question 13

What did they find in Yuille and Cutshall’s case study of a real life crime?

Answer 13

Most of the witnesses were highly accurate in their accounts and there was little change in the amount of recall over the 5 month intervening period.

Question 14

What did they find about misleading information in Yuille and Cutshall’s case study of a real life crime?

Answer 14

It was found to have no effect on real-life witnesses accounts suggesting that memory experiments in the lab may suffer from low ecological validity.