Memory- Anxiety on EWT

Question 1

What was Johnson and Scotts procedure?

Answer 1

-Deceived participants into thinking it was a memory test
-2 conditions: low anxiety and high anxiety
-LA: heard arguing and saw a man walk out with a pen
-HA: heard arguing, glass breaking then saw a man walk out with a bloody paper knife
-asked participants to identify the man out of 50 photos

Question 2

What was Johnson and Scotts findings?

Answer 2

-LA: 49% accuracy in finding the man
-HA: 33% accuracy in finding the man
-Weapon focus and tunnel vision occurred, reducing ability to recall the man

Question 3

What was Yuille and Cutshall’s procedure?

Answer 3

-13 participants
-all had witness a real life gun shooting
-interviewed initially and asked to rate their anxiety on a 7-point scale
-interviewed again after 5 months

Question 4

What was Yuille and Cutshall’s findings?

Answer 4

-highest stress= most accurate with 88%
-lowest stress = 75% accuracy
-anxiety may enhance EWT

Question 5

What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law/ Inverted U

Answer 5

-a graph that shows that anxiety will have a positive effect on memory up to an optimum point before it declines
-drastic decline