yuille and cutshall

Question 1

aim

Answer 1

to investigate whether eywitness accounts get distorted as a function of misleading post event information in a naturalistic setting

Question 2

procedure

Answer 2

13 eye witnesses to a gun store robbery

in this robber a thief entered the store and tied up the owner and stole money and guns. The owner managed to untie himself and kill the robber, this was witnessed by 21 people.

4 months after the incident reasearchers
conducted interviews where some participants were asked leading questions and some werent

their responses were compared to official police reports to determine accuracy

Question 3

results

Answer 3

misleading questions had very little effect on recall

Question 4

conclusion

Answer 4

2 potential explanations:
reconstructive memory is a phenomenon only found in artificial conditions

the study tapped into flashbulb memory so the memory of the event became imprinted in the participants memory

Question 5

pros and cons

Answer 5

pros:
uses real life event so has ecological validity

cons
relatively low sample size
hard to repeat