LOFTUS AND PALMER- CONTEXT AND AIMS

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What is an eye witness testimony (EWT)?
A legal term referring to the use of an eye witness to give evidence in court about the identity of someone committing a crime, or general details about the incident
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What did Bird (1927) and Whipple (1909) both find?
Most people are inaccurate when reporting numerical details, such as time, speed, and distance (further research shows we are likely to overestimate the duration of complex events)
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How did Marshall (1969) test the RAF personnel and what did he find?
They knew that they would be questioned about the speed of a moving car, Marshall found that the estimates of speed ranged from 10mph to 50mph, when the car was actually going at 12mph- showing inaccuracy of speed estimates
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What is a leading question?
A leading question suggests to the witness what answer is desired or leads them to the desired answer
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What did Filmore (1971) find?
That the words 'hit' and 'smashed', when used in leading questions, may lead to different estimates of movement and may also involve different consequences of the event
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What was the aim of this study?
To investigate the effect of the phrasing of the question used to produce speed judgements
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What was the aim of experiment 1?
To investigate if estimates of speeds would be affected by the use of different verbs in the leading question
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What was the aim of experiment 2?
To investigate whether leading questions bias the response given or alter the stored memory of the event
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