Loftus and Palmer
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- Created on: 29-12-15 23:40
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- Eye Witness Testimony - Research
- Loftus and Palmer
- Asked pps how fast car was going when they (hit, bumped, collided, contacted, smashed) together
- Smashed condition was highest = 40.8
- Contacted was lowest = 31.8
- Asked pps how fast car was going when they (hit, bumped, collided, contacted, smashed) together
- Loftus and Zanni
- Leading Q's: 'did you see the broken headlight?' vs 'a' broken headlight
- Pps more likely to say yes in the 'the' condition
- Leading Q's: 'did you see the broken headlight?' vs 'a' broken headlight
- Clifford and Scott
- Shown film of violent attack: pps remembered fewer of the 40 items of information about the event than control group.
- Memory may be effected more in real life incident as it is more stressful
- Shown film of violent attack: pps remembered fewer of the 40 items of information about the event than control group.
- Yuille and Cutshall
- Witnesses in real life incident of shooting outside gun shop had accurate memories of stressful event even after long time
- 2 misleading questions had no effect
- Witnesses in real life incident of shooting outside gun shop had accurate memories of stressful event even after long time
- Loftus et al
- Restaurant scenes shown to pps - in 1 customer held cheque book, in 2 customer held gun
- Pps showed weapon focus in gun scene. less likely to identify customer in line-up
- Restaurant scenes shown to pps - in 1 customer held cheque book, in 2 customer held gun
- Loftus and Palmer
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