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LEADING QUESTIONS

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LEADING QUESTIONS

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
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
EYE WITNESS TESTIMONY
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