Eye witness testimony

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  • Created on: 20-02-18 10:10
what can influence the accuracy of EWT?
Anxiety, weapon focus effect, mis-leading info/questions
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what is meant by the term anxiety?
referring to a state of emotional arousal
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who suggested the inverted U hypothesis?
Yerkes Dodson
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what is weapon focus effect?
when individuals focus on the weapon due to danger and dont notice other factors such as face of the criminal
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what were the findings of the Loftus 1979 study?
pen- 49%. knife- 33%
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what was the conclusion of the loftus 1979 study?
anxiety negatively affects the accuracy of EWT
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what was the aim of the Loftus + Palmer 1974 study?
to investigate the impact of misleading info on the accuracy of EWT
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What affected the response given by participant?
the choice of verb
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what were the finding of the Loftus + Palmer study?
contacted- 31.8. smashed-40.8
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