POST EVENT DISCUSSION

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Jasmine Singh

Cards (14)

WHAT IS THE MOST COMMON WAY TO ENCOUNTER POST-EVENT INFORMATION?
individuals who have shared same experience discuss it
WHY MAY SOME INDIVIDUALS HAVE DIFFERENT MEMORIES?
one witness may remember something differently
one witness may have paid attention to different details
one witness may have made an honest mistake
WHO DID RESEARCH FOR POST EVENT DISCUSSION?
Gabbert et al
WHAT DID PARTICIPANTS DO IN GABBERT'S EXPERIMENT?
watched a video of a store robbery
WHO WAS INVOLVED IN THE VIDEO IN GABBERT'S EXPERIMENT?
two robbers, one worker and one customer
WHAT WAS THE FIRST CONDITION IN GABBERT'S EXPERIMENT?
participant was given misinformation by a confederate
WHAT WAS THE SECOND CONDITION IN GABBERT'S EXPERIMENT?
participant read the misinformation (from "another participant")
WHAT MISINFORMATION WERE THE PARTICIPANTS GIVEN IN GABBERT'S EXPERIMENT?
worker was "stocking shelves" (stood by till)
main robber was wearing leather jacket (wore cloth striped jacket)
accomplice had a gun (empty hands)
WHAT WERE THE RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENT?
participants results were less accurate than controls on questionnaire after encountering misinformation
participants who spoke to confederate were least accurate
75% misremembered details
WEAKNESSES OF POST EVENT DISCUSSION EXPLANATION?
interviews from an experimenter not same as interviews by a police officer
results from research studies overestimate influence of post-event discussion in real world
research against
WHAT RESEARCH IS THERE AGAINST POST EVENT DISCUSSION?
Foster et al
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FOSTER et al EXPERIMENT?
showed two groups of people a bank robbery then an identity parade
WHAT WERE THE TWO CONDITIONS IN THE FOSTER et al EXPERIMENT?
half told it was part of an experiment
half told it was genuine footage (answers would influence trial)
WHAT WERE THE RESULTS OF FOSTER et al STUDY?
second group more likely to choose right culprits from parade