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Memory: Eye-Witness Testimony
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Memory: Eye-Witness Testimony
Leading Questions
- Loftus and Palmer
- lab experiment
- showed pp's a film of car accidents and asked questions about the speed of the cars
- less 'aggressive' or intense the words were, the slower the predicted speeds
- Response-bias explanations suggest that the wording of the question has no real effect on the pp's memories of the event but just influences how they answer
- Loftus and Palmer
Post-Event Discussion (PED)
- Gabbert et al
- We need to know the issues with EWT and how we should interview eyewitnesses
Anxiety having a positive effect on EWT
Anxiety having a negative effect on EWT
EWT is the evidence given in court or in police investigations by someone who has witnessed a crime or accident
memories at the time of an event are fragile and subject to distortion
misinfo can give serious errors
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- A level Psychology Mind Map on Memory: Eye-Witness Testimony, created by Caitlin Hazelton on 28/04/2022.
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