Key Issue Evaluation

Key Issue Evaluation

1. Loftus and Palmer showed that memories are often reconstructions based on subsequent information

2. Leading questions can cause false or distorted recall

   • e.g. the word 'smashed' made participants believe the cars were going faster

3. This showed that witness memory can be seriously altered by post event information in the form of misleading questions

4. Its difficult to generalise the findings of most EWT research as its typically lab based involving video footage which lacks real life emotions

5. Loftus and Zanni also found that changing a word can affect memory recall