Eye witness testimony

Eye witness testimony

1. Christiansen and Hubinette (anxiety in real life crime)

   • positives
     • research is easily replicated
     • main research into anxiety and EWT is lab based, control variables
   • negatives
     • anxiety research raises ethical issues
     • consistant evidnece that investigates anxiety and EWT
     • lacks ecological validity, lab based

2. loftus and palmer (leading questions)

   • positives
     • easy to replicate
     • poroves the aim
   • negatives
     • answers given could be based on the word not truthfull
     • lacks mundane realism
     • emotional impact
     • used students therefore cant be generalised

3. Pickel (weapon focus)

   • positives
     • doesnt lack ethics
     • can be applied to the real world
     • reliable results and all participants treated the same
   • negative
     • lacks validity
     • not generalisable to the whole public as was only done on a small sample size

4. Bothwell et al(individual differences)

   • negatives
     • lab expeiment
     • doesnt take into acount an individuals mental state
   • positives
     • reliable results and replicable