AQA-Psychology- Memory

Johnson & scott concluded that paticpants fixated on the weapon object knife item( weapon, object, knife, item ), this is known as 'tunnel theory tunnel vision tunnel veiw( tunnel theory, tunnel vision, tunnel veiw )' or 'weapon focus weapon veiw weapon vison( weapon focus, weapon veiw, weapon vison )'. Therfore they were less more( less, more ) able to identify the man holding the knife. in cases where a weapon is present, EWT is likely to be less more( less, more ) reliable.

The Yerkes Dobson law is a theory that show people with very low and very high anxiety fear alertness( anxiety, fear, alertness ) are not effective reliable trustworthy( effective, reliable, trustworthy ) eyewitnesses. People who have a medium some middle( medium, some, middle ) level of anxiety are alert enough to pay attention watch see the event( pay attention, watch, see the event ) but no so anxious they do not get fixated drawn attached( fixated, drawn, attached ) on the particular aspects of the event.

Loftus and Palmer found that leading questions were biased of the EWT of the event. The verb 'contacted smashed hit bumped( contacted, smashed, hit, bumped )' resulted in an estimated speed of 31.8mph 41.5mph( 31.8mph, 41.5mph ) compared to the verb 'smashed collied crashed thrashed( smashed, collied, crashed, thrashed )' the estimated speed was 41.5mph 31.8 mph( 41.5mph, 31.8 mph ). This showed that the more violent agressive( violent, agressive ) the verb, the faster slower( faster, slower ) the car was estimated to be going.