Eye Witness Testimony
- Created by: Molly Byrne
- Created on: 15-04-13 18:15
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- EWT
- Leading questions - A qu phrased in such a way that is suggests an answer.
- Loftus & Palmer 1974 study.
- Age of witness
- Children are more sensitive to leading questions - Warren et al memories of 3 - 4 year olds are more susceptible.
- Childrens ability to understand the question influences recall.
- Old people also have poor performance on eye witness testimony, recognise their own age better.
- Factors affecting eye witness testimony
- Anxiety - when in a state of anxiety we concentrate on what is making us anxious. Loftus study - weapon focus.
- Schema - an unorganised package of information that stores our knowledge about the world.
- Schema theory shows perceptions will influence what we think we have seen.
- How to improve the accuracy of eye witness testimony. Cognitive interview technique
- Context reinstatement - recreate a mental image.
- Recall from a changed perspective.
- recall in a reverse order.
- Report everything.
- Leading questions - A qu phrased in such a way that is suggests an answer.
- Anxiety - when in a state of anxiety we concentrate on what is making us anxious. Loftus study - weapon focus.
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