LEADING QUESTIONS

LEADING QUESTIONS

1. EXPERIMENT: Loftus and Palmer (1974)

   • The experiment done on the 45 American students found that the wording (contacted, hit, bumped, collided, smashed) of the question can affect the accuracy of the response given.
   • Evaluation
     • Lab Experiment
       • High control of extraneous variable, replicable, reliable.
     • Students with probable, limited driving experience
     • Low ecological validity
     • Participants not interviewed by police
     • Participants knew of no consequences to answersH

2. Factors affecting the influence of leading questions

   • Misleading info more likely to influence witnesses if it concerns less important details.
   • If it comes from someone we trust

3. EYE WITNESS TESTIMONY

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