leading information

• Leading questions

  -A question which, because of the way it is phrased, suggests a certain answer. e.g. 'was the knife in the accused left hand?
• leading questions findings

  -The mean estimated speed was calculated for each participant group.

  - The verb 'contacted' resulted in a mean estimated speed of 31.8mph.

  -For the verb 'smashed' the mean was 40.5mph.

  -The leading question biased the eyewitness recall of an event
• Why do leading questions affect EWT?

  -A response-bias explanation

  -suggests that the wording of the question doesn't affect the memory but influences how they decide to answer.

  
  

  -Substitution explanation-

  Wording a leading question changes the participant's memory.

  This was demonstrated as by hearing the word 'smashed' they thought they saw broken glass.
• leading questions procedure

  45 ppts watched a film of a car accident

  ppts asked to describe how fast the cars were travelling

  5 groups of ppts and each group was given a different verb in the questions - hit, contacted, collided, etc