psychology lesson 5 mr g

a level psychology notes:

evaluation:

weapon focus effect may not be relevant:

• study by johnson and scott, may test surprise rather than anxiety
• pikel (1998) conducted an experiment using scissors, handgun, a wallet, raw chicken as the hand- held items in a hair dressing salon
• scissors= low anxiety, low unusualness
• eyewitness accuracy was lower in the high unusualness conditions
• suggests the weapon focus effect is due…