AQA A Level Psychology Memory Anxiety

What is the Yerkes Dodson Law?

• Anxiety increases recall

• Performance is related to arousal

• Weapons increase anxiety

• Stress affects memory

There is a weapon involved and we focus on it meaning our recall for the event is poor

• Weapon focus

• Tunnel theory

• Arousal

• Eyewitness testimony

When was Johnson and Scott’s study?

• 1990

• 1983

• 1976

• 1967

What were the two variables in Johnson and Scott’s study?

• A pen

• A pencil

• A steak knife covered in blood

• A paper knife covered in blood

What percentage of each group correctly identified the person in Johnson and Scott’s study?

• 65 in the low anxiety group, 24% in the high anxiety group

• 24% in the low anxiety, 56% in the high

• 49% in the low anxiety group, 33% in the high

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• 33% in the low anxiety, 49% in the high anxiety

What was the overall conclusion of Johnson and Scott’s study?

• Recall was poorer when anxiety was heightened

• Recall was greater when anxiety was heightened

• The presence of a weapon increased recall

• The presence of a weapon decreased recall

What is an alternate theory of Anxiety?

• Fight or flight

• Weapon focus

• Leading questions

• Post event discussion

Who carried out a study about a real life shooting incident?

• Wagner et al

• Bahrick et al

• Yuille and Cutshaw

• Godden and Baddeley

What did Yuille and Cutshaw conclude?

• Anxiety decreases recall

• Anxiety increases recall

• Anxiety enhances the accuracy EWT

• Anxiety lesses the accuracy of EWT