anxiety

• Anxiety


  Decreases recall
• (A03): Johnson and Scott

  Participants remembered man with knife covered in blood over the man with a pen
• (A03): Yuille and Cutshall: 


  Interviewed 13 witnesses to a deadly shooting 4 months after event. Witnesses resisted misleading information

  witnesses closest to shooter (most stress) produced most accurate ETW
• Limited Validity of EWT research


  Use filmed/staged crashes/crimes. Conducted in lab.
• when does anxiety have a negative effect on memory ?

  weapon focus

  physiological arousal prevents us from paying attention to important cues
• when does anxiety have a positive effect on recall?

  witnessing a stressful event triggers alertness (flight or fight)