Accuracy Of EWT - Misleading Info

Question 1

Who investigated misleading information

Answer 1

Loftus and Palmer

Question 2

Loftus and Palmers method

Answer 2

-PP shown a video of a car accident and were asked questions
-One of the questions was did you see the broen glass
-Another one was, at what speed did you see the cars …
-hit
-contacted
-buumped
-collided
-smashed

Question 3

Why were different questions asked

Answer 3

-Saying ‘the’ broken glass sugests that there was broken glass
-The different verbs used insinuate different speeds of the cars
-These are both considerd leading questions

Question 4

Loftus and Palmers findings

Answer 4

The word smashed was judged at the speed being faster and using the smashed glass had twice the amount of people saying yes

Question 5

Methodological issues

Answer 5

Artificial tasks
Doesn’t resemble the real life effect of other variables like anxiety on the recall of EWT

Question 6

High demand characteristics

Answer 6

-Participants want to be useful, helpful and attentive
-May respond yes to questions even if there was no difference in recall