Eyewitness Testimony - Psychology

Eye witness testimony can be affected by your schema

• True

• False

Eyewitness Testimony is affected by...

• Misleading information

• Inaccurate perceptions

• Leading questions

• Post-event discussion

Loftus & Palmer's study asked how fast the cars were travelling when they _______? What does this support?

• Post event discussion affect EWT

• Leading questions affect EWT

• Leading questions help make schemas more accurate

• that lab studies have high ecological validity

What is a leading question?

• A straight question asking for all information

• One which gives aspects of information away in order to pry an answer out of someone or trigger a memory

What is post event discussion?

• Talking about something before it has taken place

• Talking about something after it has taken place

• Talking about something whilst it is taking place

How can post event discussion cause misleading information?

• Eyewitness testimonies may become contaminated

• People may forgot their original statement

• They could be referring to something else

• By casting doubt into what they saw

Cognitive interview leads to ..... memory for events as witnesses are able to recall more relevant information

Which of the following are components of the cognitive interview?

• Reinstate the context

• Report everything

• Reverse the order

• Change the perspective

Cognitive interviews require extensive ..

• training

• knowledge

• research

Which of the following could be used the evaluate accuracy of EWT

• The tasks are artificial which lack the stress of a real accident.

• There are individual differences e.g. age when giving EWT.

• The lab studies allow a high control of variables

• real life studies are impossible to use in research