Misleading information

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  • Created on: 08-09-19 20:17
who investingated the effects of leading questions
loftus and palmer
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what did their pp have to watch
a video of a car accident
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what did they change in their questioning
the verb - smashed, hit, came into contact
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what was the mean sped for contacted
31.8 mph
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what was the mean speed for smashed
40.5
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what can we conclude
the leading question biased the eyewitness recall
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what are the two explanations for leading questions affecting ewt
the response-bias explanation and the subsitution explanation
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what does the response bias explanation suggest
the wording of the question does influence the memory, just how o answer
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what does this mean for loftus and palmers reseach
the response bias explanantion encourages pp to choose a bigger or smaller speed
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what does the substitution explanation suggest about leading q
that they actually change the pp memory
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how was this shown in loftus and palmer's research
pp who heard the word 'smashed' were more liekly to report seeing broken glass than those who heard 'hit'
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what is post event discussion
co-witnesses to a crime discuss it with each other
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what does this do to their EWT
contaminates their testimony
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who researched post event discussion
Gabbert et al
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what did her pp have to do
pairs of pp saw the same crime but from different points of view so some things could be seen by one that the other couldnt. They then discussed what they had seen befor completing a test of recall
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how many pp mistakenl recalled aspects of events they had not seen but heard in discussion
71%
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what was the figure in the control group (no discussion)
0%
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what did Gabbert et al. conclude
that witnesses often go along with each other, to either win social approval or they believee the other person is right
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what phenomenpn did they observe
memory conformity
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