Eye witness testimony
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- Created on: 09-01-15 17:40
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- Eye witness testimony
- Factors that affect EWT
- Misleading information
- Loftus and Palmer
- AIM- test if the verb used in a question can effect accurate recall
- PROCEDURE-watched a car crash asked questions 'how fast were the cars travelling when they ....'
- Crashed
- collided
- hit
- Smashed
- FINDINGS- they found the word smashed gave a high average speed guessed by participants
- Loftus and Palmer
- Age of witness
- Poole and Lindsay
- PROCEDURE-3-8 year old shown science video and later read a science book and asked to recall where certain pieces of info had come from
- Older children were more able to recall accurately
- Poole and Lindsay
- Anxiety
- Participants sat outside lab thinking they were waiting to be part f an experiment, heard an argument condition 1- man walked out of room with pen condition 2- man walked out with a knife
- Loftus and palmer
- Participants that had seen the knife had less accurate recall on the event due to high levels of anxiety
- Loftus and palmer
- Participants sat outside lab thinking they were waiting to be part f an experiment, heard an argument condition 1- man walked out of room with pen condition 2- man walked out with a knife
- Misleading information
- Improving witness memory and cognitive interview
- Recalling backwards
- Report everything
- Context reinstatement
- Change perspective
- Factors that affect EWT
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