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Anxiety and Eyewitness testimony

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Quiz on Anxiety and Eyewitness testimony, created by moll. on 26/12/2013.
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Question 1

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Which psychologists carried out research into anxiety and eyewitness testimony?
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  • Peterson and Peterson and Hodges and Tizard
  • Loftus and Palmer
  • Deffenbacher, Yerkes Dodson, Christianson and Hubinette, Loftus and Fisher
  • Parker and Carranza, Yarmey, Memon et all

Question 2

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What research method was used in Deffenbacher's study into anxiety and eyewitness testimony?
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  • Meta-analysis
  • Longitudinal study
  • Lab experiemnt
  • Field Experiment

Question 3

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What did Deffenbacher conclude from his research into anxiety and eyewitness testimony?
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  • Anxiety positively affects the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
  • Anxiety negatively affects the accuracy of eyewitness testimony

Question 4

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Deffenbacher's meta-analysis is high in......
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  • fibre
  • ecological validity
  • reliability
  • generalisability

Question 5

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Deffenbacher's meta-analysis was low in.....
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  • Ecological validity
  • generalisabilty
  • sugar

Question 6

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What did Christianson and Hubinette conclude from their study?
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  • Anxiety negatively affects eyewitness testimony
  • Anxiety positively affects eyewitness testimony

Question 7

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What did Christianson and Hubinettes's research include?
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  • a questionaire about anxiety and eyewitness testimony
  • Nothing is only gives quantitative data in the form of a graph
  • 58 witnesses of a real life robbery
  • the cognitive interview

Question 8

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What was significant about Christianson and Hubinette's findings?
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  • Nothing
  • The participants who experienced high levels of anxiety could still accurately recall details of the event 15 months after it happened
  • They climbed Kilomanjaro
  • It was an independent groups study

Question 9

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What does the Yerkes Dodson Law say about the relationship between anxiety and eyewitness testimony?
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  • It is linear- There is a positive correlation
  • It is linear- There is a negative correlation
  • There is no correlation
  • There is curvilinear relationship

Question 10

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What does the Yerkes Dodson Law say about anixety and eyewitness testimony?
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  • Anxiety has a negative affect on the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
  • Low and very high levels of anxiety have a negative affect on the accuracy of eyewitness testimony, but moderate levels see optimum accurate recall and so has a positive affect on the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
  • Anxiety has a positive affect on the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
  • There is no effect on eyewitness testimony

Question 11

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What sort of experiment was Loftus' Weapon Focus
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  • Field
  • Naturalistic
  • Lab
  • Observation

Question 12

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What type of people was the experiment carried out on?
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  • The old
  • Children
  • University students
  • Teachers

Question 13

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What were the two conditions in Loftus' Weapon Focus experiment?
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  • 1) an intruder with grease on his hands and a pen 2) an intruder with blood on his hands and a penknife
  • 1) an intruder dressed as a clown 2) an intruder dressed as a ghost
  • 1) an intruder dressed as a teddy bear 2) an intruder dressed as a lion
  • 1) a lecturer dressed as a pigeon 2) a lecturer dressed in normal attire

Question 14

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What did Loftus' Weapon Focus find?
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  • Anxiety negatively affects the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
  • Anxiety positively affects the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
  • Anxiety has no affect on the accuracy of eyewitness testimony

Question 15

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How was accuracy of eyewitness testimony tested in Loftus' Weapon focus?
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  • asked to describe features of the intruder
  • Asked to select the intruder from a selection of photographs
  • Asked to name the intruder

Question 16

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Who proposed the repression theory?
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  • Fisher
  • Yarmey
  • Memon

Question 17

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Who did it focus on?
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  • Blind
  • Children
  • Child rape victims
  • Child neglect victims

Question 18

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What did the Repression study propose about anxiety and eyewitness testimony?
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  • Anxiety negatively affected the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
  • Anxiety positively affected the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
  • Anxiety had no affect on eyewitness testimony

Question 19

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Christianson and Hubinette's study was high in......
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  • Ecological validity
  • generalisability
  • face validity

Question 20

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Christianson and Hubinette's study was low in.....
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  • ecological validity
  • reliability
  • generalisability
  • inter-rater reliability

Question 21

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Is the Weapon Focus experiment ethical?
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  • Yes
  • No

Question 22

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Loftus' Weapon Focus was...
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  • It was cool
  • had high inter-rater reliability
  • high in reliability
  • High in replicability- easy to replicate

Question 23

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Fisher's repression study was high in.....
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  • generalisability
  • ecological validity

Question 24

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Fisher's repression study was low in.....
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  • generalisability
  • reliability
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