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WorksheetsMEM - 6 - EWT (Misleading Info L1) (PQ)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
In Loftus & Palmer's experiment 1, what were the participants shown?
Cartoons of traffic accidents
Seven film clips of different traffic accidents
One film clip of a traffic accident
Three film clips of different traffic accidents
In Loftus & Palmer's first experiment, the group given the word ___________ estimated a higher speed than the other groups
Collided
Hit
Smashed
Bumped
Crashed
How many films were shown in experiment 1?
5
7
9
What were the verbs used in experiment !?
smashed
collided
bashed
crashed
hit
Loftus & Palmer's study asked how fast the cars were travelling when they [verb] the car? What does this support?
Post event discussion affect EWT
Leading questions affect EWT
Leading questions help make schemas more accurate
Post event discussion can cause memory contamination
What is a leading question?
A question which may lead to responses based on social conformity
A question which may lead to substitution of the original memory
A question which represents the critical aspect of the independent variable
A question which leads participants to give the wrong answer
Loftus and Palmer found that:
The verb used in a question can influence participants' estimate of speed
Post-event discussion can impact the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
The verb used in a question can influence whether participants report seeing broken glass
When anxiety is high there is a decrease in the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
Participants in Loftus and Palmer were asked an series of questions but they were only interested in one question. What do we call the question that is the focus of the study.
Critical question
Leading question
Closed question
Filler question
What type of experimental design did Loftus and Palmer use?
Independent groups design
Repeated measures design
Matched pairs design
What are the variables for the IV and DV in the context of Loftus and Palmer's Study?
The verb used to describe the impact
The time between watching the video and responding to questions
Estimate of speed
The perspective of the co-witness
