Factors Affecting Eyewitness Testimony - Misleading Information
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- Created on: 16-11-16 21:31
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- Factors Affecting Eyewitness Testimony - Misleading Information
- Post-Event Discussion
- When co-witnesses discuss a crime their eye-witness testimonies can become contaminated
- 71% recalled aspects they hadn't seen as opposed to 0% of control group
- Witnesses go along with each other to win social approval/they believe they're wrong (memory conformity)
- Gabbert studied participants who watched different angles of the same crime video then discussed
- Leading Questions
- Why Leading Questions Affect EWT
- Substitution Explanation - wording actually changes participants memory, those who heard smashed were more likely to falsely remember broken glass
- Response Bias Explanation - question wording doesn't affect memories just influences answer
- Loftus/Palmer showed participants car accident clips and questioned them with a leading question
- Used 5 different verbs - hit, contacted, bumped, collided, smashed
- Mean estimated speed for contacted = 31.8mph, smashed = 40.5mps
- Why Leading Questions Affect EWT
- Post-Event Discussion
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