6. The way in which questions about events are worded can affect the way in which those events are remembered
True
False
7. What were the 5 verbs used?
Smashed, collided, crashed, hit and contacted
Smashed, impacted, crashed, hit and contacted
Smashed, collided, bumped, hit and contacted
Smashed, crashed, bumped, hit and contacted
8. Smashed produced the highest estimated speed
True
False
9. How many participants reported seeing any broken class in the smashed condition?
16
7
6
17
10. What was the estimated speed for contacted?
31.8mph
38.1mph
39.3mph
33.9mph
11. What was the estimated speed for bumped?
40.1mph
38.1mph
31.8mph
39.1mph
12. What was the first experiment's aim?
To investigate whether the phrasing of questions about a car accident could alter participants' memory of an event
To investigate whether using different verbs to describe a collision between two cars would affect estimates of the speed at which they were travelling when the crash took place
To investigate whether the different speed estimates were the result of a memory distortion
13. What was the general aim?
To investigate whether the different speed estimates were the result of a memory distortion
To investigate whether the phrasing of questions about a car accident could alter participants' memory of an event
To investigate whether using different verbs to describe a collision between two cars would affect estimates of the speed at which they were travelling when the crash took place
14. Two possible reasons for the differences in speed estimates were response bias and memory distortion
True
False
15. How many participants reported seeing broken class in the hit condition?
16
17
7
6
16. How many participants were there in the second experiment?
