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1
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Valentine and Coxon (1997)

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the effect of age on eyewitness testimony

2
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Valentine and Coxon date

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1957

3
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Method: how many groups of participants took part?

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three

4
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Method: what were the three groups?

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children
young adults
elderly people

5
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Method: what did the participants do?

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watch a video of a kidnapping

6
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Method: they were then asked a series of

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leading and non-leading questions about what they had seen

7
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Results: elderly people and children

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gave more incorrect answers

8
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Results: children were more likely to be

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mislead then adults and the elderly

9
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Conclusion: age

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does have an effect on EWT

10
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Evaluation: this has implications in

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law when children or the elderly are questioned

11
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Evaluation: the experiment was

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artificial as it wasn’t emotionally arousing as it would have been in real life

12
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Evaluation: due to the study being artificial, this means

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the study lacks ecological validity