Yuille and Cutshall 1986
Yuille and Cutshall
feild experiment
actual eyewitnesses to robbery and gun shooting
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- Created on: 24-05-14 13:49
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- Yuille & Cutshall '86
- AIM
- record and evaluate witness accounts
- look at witness and verbatim account
- PROCEDURE
- natural setting - field experiment
- interviewed police - verbatim
- 4/5 months later 13 Ps asked about it
- 2 misleading questions a/ the yellow quarter panel (blue) & broken headlight (wasnt broken)
- stress levels experienced on likert scale
- asked about their emotional state before and after incident
- scoring procedure to compare with police reports
- RESULTS
- CONCLUSION
- show that eyewitnesses are not incorrect in their accounts
- may have been investigating flashbulb memory
- scoring procedure undermined the accuracy of thier accounts
- STRENGTHS
- field study that look at a real situation - valid
- care was taken when collecting details from the incident - reliable
- WEAKNESSES
- cant generalise - flash bulb memory
- scoring done conservatively - some inaccuracies
- AIM
- person descriptions
- object descriptions
- police
- 12%
- 52%
- 25%
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