Factors Affecting Eyewitness Testimony - Misleading Information Evaluation
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- Created on: 16-11-16 21:49
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- Factors Affecting Eyewitness Testimony - Misleading Information Evaulation
- Individual Differences
- Older people are less accurate when giving eyewitness reports
- Anastasi/ Rhodes found 18-25 and 25-45 year olds more accurate than 55-78 year olds
- Own Age Bias = more accurate when identifying those of their own age group
- Artificial Tasks
- Loftus/Palmer used film clips so no real stress
- Emotions can influence memory - anxiety
- Can't be generalised to real accidents/ crimes
- Consequences of EWT
- Foster pointed out there are no consequences in research studies unlike real life
- Useful real-life application
- Loftus believes leading questions can sway eyewitnesses when police question them
- Pychologists believe they can improve how legal system works
- Demand Character-istics
- Zaragosa/ McCloskey say many lab answers are due to demand characteristics as participants don't want to let researcher down
- Will answer yes to appear helpful
- Individual Differences
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