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1
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what did Loftus and Palmer look at?

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how EWT can be distorted

2
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what did Loftus and Palmer use?

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leading questions where certain answers is implied in the question

3
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Loftus and Palmer: study name

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looking into eyewitness testimony

4
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Loftus and Palmer: study date

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1974

5
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Experiment 1 - Method: participants where shown

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a film of a car crash

6
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Experiment 1 - Method: after the film, they were

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asked a series of questions

7
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Experiment 1 - Method: what was the main question used?

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how fast was the car going when they _____?

8
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Experiment 1 - Method: verb used

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hit
smashed
collided
bumped
contacted
9
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Experiment 1 - Results: verb that caused the highest estimated speed

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smashed (41 mph)

10
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Experiment 1 - Results: verb that caused the lowest estimated speed

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collided (32 mph)

11
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Experiment 2: Method: how many groups were the participants split into?

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three

12
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Experiment 2: Method: Group 1 verb

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smashed

13
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Experiment 2: Method: Group 2 verb

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hit

14
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Experiment 2: Method: Group 3

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didn’t have any indication of the vehicles speed

15
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Experiment 2: Method: a week later the participants were asked

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did you see any broken glass

16
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Experiment 2: Results: was there any broken glass?

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no

17
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Experiment 2: Results: group 1

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more likely to say there was glass then group 2

18
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Experiment 2: Conclusion: leading questions can affect

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the accuracy of people’s memories of an event

19
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Experiment 2: Evaluation: EWT causes implications in

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police interviews

20
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Experiment 2: Evaluation: the study is an

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artificial experiment

21
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Experiment 2: Evaluation: watching a video isn’t

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emotionally arousing

22
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Experiment 2: Evaluation: another study found that if the participants thought the film was real

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they gave more accurate speed estimates

23
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Experiment 2: Evaluation: the experimental design might cause

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demand characteristics

24
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Experiment 2: Evaluation: the leading questions could lead to the participants

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to figure out what the experiment was about