anxiety

• anxiety can impact the attention and accuracy of the witness
• yerkes dodson law - inverted u theory - anxiety increases until peak and then accuracy increases after peak accuracy decreases - too anxious to properly take in info
• weapon focus - focus on the weapon and can't effectivly describe the person
• pro - practical application can show how ewt might be ineffective
• crit - natural experiment those who had experienced a bank robbery had high levels of accurate recall - conflicting evidence
• crit unusualness not anxiety- shocked at what they saw not anxious