Loftus and Palmer split their study up into 2 lab experiments.
Exp 1 Aim: To investigation the effect of leading questions.
Procedure: - 45 students watched film clips of car accidents and were then asked to do 2 things:
1. Write an account about what they had seen,
2. Answer questions about what they had seen.
A critical question was amongst these questions:
About how fast were the cars going when they (verb) each other?
There were five conditions (verbs/IVs) in the experiment and five groups of students.
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