Misleading information
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- Created on: 21-01-19 19:32
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- EWT: Misleading information
- Leading questions
- Response bias explanation
- Wording of the question has no effect on the memory of event, but influences the kind of answer given
- Substitution explanation
- Wording of question does affect EW memory
- It interferes with the original memory, distorting its accuracy
- Wording of question does affect EW memory
- Response bias explanation
- Loftus and Palmer
- Looked at the effects of leading questions
- 5 groups, each given a different verb in the critical question
- Hit
- Contacted
- Bumped
- Collided
- Smashed
- Findings: 'contacted' received a mean speed of 31.8mph and 'smashed' was 40.6mph
- 45 Pp (students) watched films about a car accident and were then asked questions about speed
- The leading question biased the EW recall
- Post event discussion
- Memory contamination
- Co witnesses mix information from other witnesses with their own
- Memory conformity
- Witnesses go along with eachother to win social approval or because they believe the EW are right
- Memory contamination
- Gabbert
- Paired Pp watched a video of the same crime
- The video was filmed so each Pp could see elements in the event that the other could not
- Both Pp discussed what they had seen before individually completing a recall test
- Findings: 71% of Pp mistakenly recalled aspects of the events that they did not see in the video but had picked up in the post event discussion
- In the control froup, there was no discussion and no errors in recall
- Memory conformity
- Witnesses go along with eachother to win social approval or because they believe the EW are right
- Leading questions
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