Anxiety on EWT Essay Plan

Discuss how anxiety affects eye witness testimony. (16 marks)

AO1 - 

• Many studies/pieces of research 
• Deffenbacher - meta-analysis. 21 studies, high stress, less accurate
• Christianson&Hubinette - 58 witness bank robberies. Arousal = more accurate from those threatened, could remember 15 month later
• YD Law- curvilinear relationship. Low arousal = low recall. Moderate = optimum
• Fisher& repression. 22 **** victims as kids, no recall as adults due to the mems being repressed so traumatic event not in conscious thought. High stress = low accuracy
• Loftus weapon focus - B…