Reconstructive memory - ERQ

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The was the Yuille and Cutshall study?
1986
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What is another name of the Yuille and Cutshall (1986) study?
Gun store robbery study
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What is the aim of the Yuille and Cutshall (1986) study?
To investigate whether eyewitness accounts get distorted as a function of misleading plot event information in a naturalistic setting.
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What were the participants of the Yuille and Cutshall (1986) study?
13 eyewitnesses to a real crime (a gun store robbery) in Vancouver.
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What was the procedure of the Yuille and Cutshall (1986) study?
After a real life robbery, where the owner untied and killed the robber. The witnesses were interviewed by police and four months later, they were interviewed again but with some having leading questions and misleading information and others not.
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What were the results of the Yuille and Cutshall (1986) study?
Misleading questions had very little effect on recall. Participants were able to accurately recall a large number of details.
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What are the two possible explanations of the Yuille and Cutshall (1986) study?
Reconstructive memory is a phenomenon that is only found in artificial conditions of laboratory experiment.

The study actually tapped into a different memory phenomenon called flashbulb memory. It occurs when the witnessed events accompanied by a strong
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What is the for evaluation for the Yuille and Cutshall (1986) study?
Field study therefore strong validity

Great care taken when counting the details
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What is the for evaluation against the Yuille and Cutshall (1986) study?
Lacks generalisability

Weak points in scoring procedure
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When was the Loftus and Pickrell study?
1995
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What was the aim of the Loftus and Pickrell (1995) study?
To determine if false memories of autobiographical events can be created through the power of suggestion.
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What was the procedure of the Loftus and Pickrell (1995) study?
Participants got a questionnaire with the memories and the fake one being lost at the mall. And they had to write about them or say ‘I don’t remember’. They then got interviews to recall the memories and say their level of confidence of remembering.
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What were the results of the Loftus and Pickrell (1995) study?
25% of the participants ‘recalled’ the false memory but rated the memory as less confident than the other memories and they wrote less about the memory on their questionnaire.
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What was the for evaluation for the Loftus and Pickrell (1995) study?
It was easy to verify the memories through the relatives.

It has a high ecological validity as they are talking about childhood memories.
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What was the against evaluation for the Loftus and Pickrell (1995) study?
Only 25% recalled the false memory. The study does not explain why they were susceptible to these memories than others.
Difficult to know whether this a true false memory or a distortion of another memory of being lost.
Ethical concerns about he decepti
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When was the Loftus and Palmer study?
1974
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What was the aim of the Loftus and Palmer (1974) study?
To investigate the effect of leading questions on eye witness testimony of an event.
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What was the method of the Loftus and Palmer (1974) study?
Participants (p’s) were shown 7 films of car accidents (5-30 seconds) 
After each clip, p’s were given a questionnaire asking: 

To give an account of the accident 
Number of questions, including the critical question “How fast were the cars going when th
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What were the participants shown before the questionnaire in the Loftus and Palmer (1974) study?
Participants were shown 7 films of car accidents (5-30 seconds)
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What were the results of the Loftus and Palmer (1974) study?
Results showed that that the speed estimates were influenced by the wording (verb) used. 
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