Eyewitness testimony

Eyewitness testimony

1. Anxiety

   • Loftus et al.
   • Much research into anxiety and EWT is laboratory based so findings cannot be generalised to real life scenarios
   • The Yerkes- Dodson inverted U-hypothesis
   • an unpleasant state of emotional arousal

2. Misleading information

   • Leading questions
   • Loftus and Palmer
   • Information that suggests a desired response
   • The consequences of inaccurate memories are minimal in research settings.
   • inaccurate recall should perhaps be expected since participants believe the researchers to be telling the truth