Eyewitness testimony - Misleading questions
- Created by: Ellie Meredith
- Created on: 03-01-13 18:43
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- Eyewitness testimony - Misleading information
- Leading questions affects 'retrieval' stage of memory
- Loftus and Palmer
- Recruited 45 students. Showed them films of car accidents and asked afterwards 'How fast was the car going when they 'HIT' eachother?'
- 'HIT' was replaced with; Smashed, Bumped, Colided or Contacted
- Evaluation
- Change police interviews, techniques for the better
- Highly controlled experiment
- Lacks ecological validity
- Biased sample
- Recruited 45 students. Showed them films of car accidents and asked afterwards 'How fast was the car going when they 'HIT' eachother?'
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