Lesson 11 - Anxiety
Anxiety
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- Lesson 11 - Anxiety and Eyewitness Testimony - Anxiety
- Peters (1988)
- Took heart rate of students during an inoculation and two mins after it was finished
- People who had a higher heart rate during the inoculation were classed as high anxiety participants
- Only 31% recognised a photo of the nurse afterwards if they were high anxiety patients
- 59% of low anxiety patients recognised the photo
- Shows that anxiety had inhibited their ability to remember details of the situation
- Peters (1988)
- Anxiety
- Lesson 11 - Anxiety and Eyewitness Testimony - Anxiety
- Peters (1988)
- Took heart rate of students during an inoculation and two mins after it was finished
- People who had a higher heart rate during the inoculation were classed as high anxiety participants
- Only 31% recognised a photo of the nurse afterwards if they were high anxiety patients
- 59% of low anxiety patients recognised the photo
- Shows that anxiety had inhibited their ability to remember details of the situation
- Peters (1988)
- A state of apprehension, uncertainty and fear resulting from a threatening situation
- Impairs physical and psychological functioning
- Psychologists suggest that if someone's anxious during a crime, it can impair accurate and detailed recall of that crime
- Lesson 11 - Anxiety and Eyewitness Testimony - Anxiety
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