Anxiety

• Anxiety has a 


  Physical and emotional effect on people
• Outline of Johnson and Scott study 


  Volunteers in a Lab setting witness a row in low anxiety(no weapon) or high anxiety (bloody knife)
• What is the yuille and cutshall study 


  Witness to real life shooting . Where 2 man were shot . They were interviewed months later . Compared there old and new interviews
• What is the paker and al study 


  Interviews people affected by a hurricane . Checked relationship between memory and if there house was destroyed
• What is the valentine and mesout study 


  Visitors to a horror adventure were divided into low and high anxiety on basis on heart monitor

  Asked to describe a person they encountered
• What’s is the main finding to the Johnson and Scott study 


  Low anxiety associated with high accuracy of EWT

  Anxiety has a negative has a negative effect on recall
• What is the main finding of guile and cutshall 


  High anxiety associated with high accuracy of ewt

  Anxiety has a positive effect in recall
• What is the main finding of Parker and al


  Moderate anxiety gives optimum recall and ewt
• What is the main finding of valentine and mesout 


  Low anxiety assossicated with high accuracy of ewt

  Anxiety has a negative effect on recall
• What is weapon focus 


  Focus is mainly on weapon . = creates anxiety
• what is the tunnel theory of memory 


  Anxiety narrows ur attention on 1 aspect of a scene
• What is fight and flight response 


  Improves memory for the event as you become more aware
• what Is the yerkes dodson law


  Performance will increase with stress . But only up 1 point
• ✅valentine use of heart monitors

  increases validity
• ✅❌ most studies were lab studies

  - Well controlled = standardised can be replicated

  - Increase in demand characteristics due to social Approval
• Pickle ❌

  Not always anxiety

  Surprises can influence anxiety to

  like scissors in hairdressers = low anxiety

  but gun = high anxiety
• ❌jonhson and scott (lab experiment)

  High controlled = standardised = can be replicated

  In a lab = high demand characteristics as ppt knew they were in a study
• ❌Johnson amd Scott (ethical issues)

  Deception = ppt thought it was an interview

  Lack of protection harm = ppt were exposed to a bloody knife