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Loftus & Palmer
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- 1Backgroundshowing eyewitness testimony was unreliable
- 2Aimto investigate how information supplied after an event, influences a witness's memory for that event.
- 3Research method-2 lab experiments
-independant measures - 4IVVerb used
- 5DVFirst - speed estimate
Second - whether or not they believed there had been broken glass - 6Controls-Same clips
-All wrote an account and aswered same other questions
-Same critical sentence "About how fast were the cars going when they ***** each other?" - 7Sample45 students of the University of Washington
- 8Procedure of first-shown 7 road safety clips of car crashes (5-30 secs long)
-after each clip ps were asked to write an account of the accident & answer some specific questions but the critical question was to do with the speed of the vehicles involved in the collision.
-5 conditions(each with nine participants) and the independent variable was manipulated by changing the verb (smashed, collided, bumped, hit, contacted)
-about an hour and a half & counterbalancing used - 9Results of firstMean estimate of speed (mph)
Smashed: 40.8
Collided: 39.3
Bumped: 38.1
Hit: 34.0
Contacted: 31.8 - 10Conclusions of first1. the results could be due to a distortion in the memory of the participant because of the different verb
2. could be due to response-bias factors when the p is not sure of the exact speed so adjusts their estimate to fit in with the expectations of the questioner (demand characterises)
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