Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Misleading information
- EWT is affected by post event experiences
- Mainly misleading info from misleading qns
- Leading questions
- Increase chance of schemas influencing recall
- Post event info
- Misleading info added to qns
- Negatively effects recall
- Loftus and Palmer (1974)
- 'EWT is unreliable due to misleading qns'
- 45 ppts watched films of car accidents
- 'How fast were the cars going when they ... into eachother?'
- smashed/bumped/collided/hit/contacted
- Smashed 40.5 mph
- Contacted 31.8 mph
- 150 students watch film of car crash with NO broken glass
- 1/3 asked how fast when they smashed into eachother
- 1/3 asked how fast when they hit eachother
- 1/3 no estimate required
- 12%
- 14%
- 1 week later
- 32% recalled broken glass
- misleading info =verb used
- Memories were recalled false
- Reconstructed with new info
- Evaluation
- Well controlled- lab experiments allow all variable to be the same
- Same stimuli
- Lack of ecological validity
- No real life emotions
- Different sensory factors
- Demand characteristics as opposed to distorted memory
- Uni students -not representative sample
- Tend not to look silly infront of teachers or researchers