Evaluation: EWT Misleading Information Studies
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- Created on: 07-11-16 14:43
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- Evaluation: EWT Misleading Information Studies
- Useful real life aplications
- Important practical uses in the real world
- Loftus (1975) said leading questions can have such an effect on memory that police need to be careful phrasing questions
- An area where psychologists believe they can make a difference to the lives of people
- Improving the way the legal system works
- Appearing in court trials as expert witnesses
- Artificial tasks
- Loftus and Palmer: ppts watched video clips of accidents
- Clips lack the stress of a real accident
- Emotions can have an influence on memory
- Tells us very little about leading questions in real crimes
- Individual differences
- Older people are less accurate than young people giving EWT
- Anastasi and Rhodes (2006) found people under 45 were more accurate than over 45
- All age groups were more accurate when identifying with people of their own age
- This called own bias
- Studies often use younger people as the target to identify
- This means some groups appear less accurate, even though this isn't true
- Demand characteristics
- Zaragoza and McCloskey (1989): answers participants give are result of DCs
- Participants don't want to let the researcher down
- If they don't know the answer to a question, they guess
- This extraneous variable may affect the DV
- Participants may change their behaviour within the research situation
- Useful real life aplications
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