A03 MI

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Cards (4)

* practical uses in real world?
as a result of her findings loftus believes leading questions can have distorting effect on memory that police officers need to be very careful about how they phrase questions when interviewing witnesses
* ecological
research into leading questions has allowed police to develop new interviewing techniques which avoid language that may affect certain answers
overall leads to more accurate recall in court
can have further economic implications for society by reducing amount of wrongful convictions
X artificial research?
participants in loftus & palmer watched clips of car accidents
this is very different experience from witnessing a real accident as watching a vid is less emotionally arousing than witnessing it in real life
? ecological
artificial materials used to study these factors may not provide us with accurate representation of how our memory would be influenced in recall of real events
difficult to generalise findings to real life situations of ewt
X affected by own age bias?
anastasi & rhodes 2006 investigated individuals from 3 diff age groups were shown photos & asked them to rate on attractiveness
18-25 35-45 55-78
were later given photo recognition task & asked to identify faces that they have already seen & rated earlier on
all age groups were accurate identifying faces from own age groups
suggests presence of misleading info is not only factor which impacts accuracy of ewt
may be other factors
X evidence to suggest ewt influenced by dc?
zaragosa & mccloskey 1989 argue that many answers participants given in lab studies of ewt are result of dcs
do not want to let researcher down & want to appear helpful/attentive when trying to recall events of crime
when asked a question they dont know anwer to may guess especially at yes/no question
? internal
hard to tell if participant is behaving naturally
means it is difficult to generalise findings to real life explanations of factors that affect accuracy of ewt