Misleading information

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Mind Map on Misleading information, created by rachbreen on 11/05/2013.
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Misleading information
  1. EWT is affected by post event experiences
    1. Mainly misleading info from misleading qns
      1. Leading questions
        1. Increase chance of schemas influencing recall
        2. Post event info
          1. Misleading info added to qns
            1. Negatively effects recall
      2. Loftus and Palmer (1974)
        1. 'EWT is unreliable due to misleading qns'
          1. 45 ppts watched films of car accidents
            1. 'How fast were the cars going when they ... into eachother?'
              1. smashed/bumped/collided/hit/contacted
                1. Smashed 40.5 mph
                  1. Contacted 31.8 mph
            2. 150 students watch film of car crash with NO broken glass
              1. 1/3 asked how fast when they smashed into eachother
                1. 1/3 asked how fast when they hit eachother
                  1. 1/3 no estimate required
                    1. 12%
                    2. 14%
                    3. 1 week later
                      1. 32% recalled broken glass
                  2. misleading info =verb used
                    1. Memories were recalled false
                      1. Reconstructed with new info
                  3. Evaluation
                    1. Well controlled- lab experiments allow all variable to be the same
                      1. Same stimuli
                      2. Lack of ecological validity
                        1. No real life emotions
                          1. Different sensory factors
                        2. Demand characteristics as opposed to distorted memory
                          1. Uni students -not representative sample
                            1. Tend not to look silly infront of teachers or researchers
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