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Flashcards by Elise Lambert, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Elise Lambert
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Who said anxiety has a negative effect on recall? | Johnson and Scott |
| What was the procedure in Johnson and Scott's study? | 'Low anxiety' - sat in a waiting room, heard an argument and saw a man walk out of the room with a pen in his hand 'high anxiety' - heard an argument, heard glass smashing, saw a man walk out of the room with a knife and blood on his hands |
| What were the results? | 49% of the pen version were able to pick the man out of 50 photos only 33% in the knife version could |
| What is the tunnel theory? | Argues that the witness's attention narrows to focus on the weapon, because it's the source of anxiety |
| Who said that anxiety had a positive affect on Recall? | Yuille and Cutshall |
| What was the procedure? | Studied a shooting in a candian gun shop. 13 participants agreed to take part. Interviews were held 4-5 months after the incident and compared to the original interviews. They were also asked to rate how stressed they were at the time of the accident. |
| What were the findings? | those that reported feeling the most anxious were the most accurate. 88% |
| How can we explain this contradiction? | Yerkes-Dodson Law |
| What is a limitation of Johnson and Scott's research? | They may have been testing the suprisement levels of the participants as opposed to the anxiety levels- with tunnel theory |
| What is a limitation of Yuille and Cutshall's research? | Field experiments lack control because there are a number of extraneous variables. |
| What is a limitation of research into anxiety? | It can potentially subject people to psychological harm. |
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