Factors affecting eye witness testimony: Anxiety- Describe and evaluate for 16 marks
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- Created on: 13-02-17 19:51
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Discuss research into anxiety as a factor affecting eyewitness testimony (16 marks)
Describe:
- The unpleasant emotional state caused by a situation and associated with an increase in breathing and heart rate
- Can have a positive effect on eye witness testimonies (EWT)
- Fight or flight triggers alertness
- Evolution => it would be of an advantage for us to remember how to react to the same stimulus in the future
- Research= Yuille and Cutshall. Real-life shooting, gathered EWT. 5 months later EWs were interviewed and the most anxious people provided the most accurate information (possible because they wanted to help the police).
- Can have a negative effect
- Weapon focus
- Fight or flight causes us to prioritise survival NOW over remembering information LATER
- Research=Johnson and Scott. Participants (ppts)…
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