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Factors affecting eyewitness testimony
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Factors affecting eyewitness testimony
there is a large base of evidence suggesting that misleading information can lead to EWT innaccuracy
- Leading questions
- Loftus - car crash study
- Post event discussion
- Gabbert - crime video
- Real life application
- raised awareness
- Criminal justice system
- Can't always rely on EWT
- positive impact on people in today's society to reduce wrongful comvictions as a result of EWT
- cognitive interview
- Leading questions
Laboratory experiments
- low ecological validity, has little resemblance to real-life
- Artificial tasks - watch videos, doesn't reflect real-life viewing
- Demand characteristics
- may alter their answers to meet research aims
- Participants in the study may behave in a particular way
- Highly controlled experiments
- extraneous variables controlled
- e.g. Loftus' car crash study - critical verbs in questions
- study can be replicated
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- A level Psychology Mind Map on Factors affecting eyewitness testimony, created by Hannah Russell on 27/02/2019.
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