Loftus and Palmer
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- Created on: 28-04-15 10:19
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- Loftus
- Aim
- Show eye witness testimonies can be changed by leading questions
- Procedure
- opportunity sample of 45 American students used lab with 5 conditions with independent measure design
- Shown slides of car accident involving multiple cars
- Asked questions to describe scene
- Specific question 'how fast were the cars going when they...'
- Each group had different word: hit, smashed, collided, bumped, contacted
- Findings
- smashed= thought car speed increasingly higher than bumped
- Evaluation
- Only America (Cultural Bias) Can't generalise
- Small sample size
- Loftus Broken glass experiment helps prove
- Practical Applications-how interviews are structured
- No emotional arousal only watching footage
- Asked straight after seen it (not like real life)
- Has lab based level of control
- Conclusion
- Certain words can distort memory and leading questions can alter the validity of a witnesses statement
- Aim
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