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Flashcards by Elise Lambert, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Elise Lambert
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| Question | Answer |
| Who did the experiment into leading questions? | Loftus and Palmer |
| What was the procedure of Loftus and Palmer's experiment? | Participants watched a car accident and then gave them questions about the accident. There were 5 groupd who were each given a different verb in the question |
| What was the main body of the question? | About how fast were the cars driving when they ___ |
| What were the verbs given in the question? | Hit, contacted, bumped, collided, smashed |
| What did Loftus and Palmer find? | for the verb 'contacted' the mean estimate was 31.8mph for the verb 'smashed' 40.5mph |
| What did Loftus and Palmer conclude? | That the leading question biased the eyewitness recall of an event |
| What is misleading information? | incorrect information given to the eyewitness, usually after the event. |
| What was Loftus and Palmer's second study and what did they find? | They found that the wording of a question actually changes the participants memory. participants who originally heard 'smashed' were more likely to say they saw broken glass |
| What is a leading question? | A question which, because of the way it is phrased, suggests a certain answer. |
| Who did an experiment into Post-event discussion? | Gabbert |
| What was the procedure in Gabbert's experiment? | studied participants in pairs. each participant watched a video of the same crime but from different angles. Then asked to discuss and do a recall test. |
| What did Gabbert find? | 71% of the participants mistakenly recalled aspects that they did not see but were picked up in the discussion |
| What a strength of Loftus and Palmer's study? | Police officers need to be very careful about how they phrase their questions when interviews eyewitnesses. It can make an important differences in the legal system |
| What is a limitation of Loftus and Palmer's experiment? | The tasks were artificial and lacked the stress or a real accident because the had to 'watch' a car accident. |
| What is another limitation to Loftus and Palmer's experiment? | Participants do not want to let the researcher down so will just say what they think the researcher will want to hear. This is demand characteristics. |
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