POST EVENT DISCUSSION

• WHAT IS POST EVENT INFORMATION?

  when individuals who have shared the same experience discuss it with one another
• WHY CAN POST EVENT DISCUSSION CAUSE DIFFERENT STORYLINES?

  • one witness remembered differently
  • paid attention to different details
  • made an honest mistake
• WHAT IS MEMORY CONFORMITY?

  when accounts of memory can become inaccurate
• WHO STUDIED THE EFFECT OF POST EVENT DISCUSSION?

  Gabbert et al
• WHAT WAS THE PROCEDURE OF GABBERT ET AL'S STUDY?

  participants watched a video of a store robbery
• CONDITION 1 OF GABBERT ET AL'S STUDY?

  participants were given misinformation by a confederate
• CONDITION 2 OF GABBERT ET AL'S STUDY?

  participants read misinformation
• WHAT MISINFORMATION WERE PARTICIPANTS GIVEN IN GABBERT ET AL'S STUDY?

  • employee was stacking shelves (was at till)
  • robber was in leather jacket (cloth)
  • robber had gun (nothing)
• FINDINGS OF GABBERT ET AL'S STUDY IN RELATION TO CONTROL QUESTIONS?

  participants results were less accurate than answers to control questions on questionnaire (after being given misinformation)
• FINDINGS OF GABBERT ET AL'S STUDY IN RELATION TO CONFEDERATES?

  participants who spoke to confederates were least accurate
• FINDINGS OF GABBERT ET AL'S STUDY IN RELATION TO DETAILS?

  75% misremembered details
• EVALUATION POINTS OF GABBERT ET AL'S STUDY?

  • being interviewed by experimenter not real police officer
  • Foster et al
• WHY DOES THE INFLUENCE OF AN EXPERIMENTER NOT POLICE OFFICER AFFECT THE CREDIBILITY OF GABBERT ET AL'S STUDY?

  • not same anxiety levels
  • overestimates influence of post-event discussion in real world
• WHAT DID FOSTER ET AL DO?

  showed 2 groups of people a bank robbery

  -> half were told it was an experiment, the other half's answers "influence the trial"
• WHAT WERE THE FINDINGS OF FOSTER ET AL'S STUDY?

  the group who were told their answers "influence the trial" were more likely to choose the correct culprits