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Misleading information
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Mind Map on Misleading information, created by rachbreen on 11/05/2013.
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Misleading information
EWT is affected by post event experiences
Mainly misleading info from misleading qns
Leading questions
Increase chance of schemas influencing recall
Post event info
Misleading info added to qns
Negatively effects recall
Loftus and Palmer (1974)
'EWT is unreliable due to misleading qns'
45 ppts watched films of car accidents
'How fast were the cars going when they ... into eachother?'
smashed/bumped/collided/hit/contacted
Smashed 40.5 mph
Contacted 31.8 mph
150 students watch film of car crash with NO broken glass
1/3 asked how fast when they smashed into eachother
1/3 asked how fast when they hit eachother
1/3 no estimate required
12%
14%
1 week later
32% recalled broken glass
misleading info =verb used
Memories were recalled false
Reconstructed with new info
Evaluation
Well controlled- lab experiments allow all variable to be the same
Same stimuli
Lack of ecological validity
No real life emotions
Different sensory factors
Demand characteristics as opposed to distorted memory
Uni students -not representative sample
Tend not to look silly infront of teachers or researchers
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