states that there is an optimum level of anxiety for accurate eyewitness testimony. I.e. People who are not at all stressed‚ and people who are very stressed will be less accurate eyewitnesses that those who are under a moderate amount of stress. Loftus carried out a study of the ‘Weapon effect’. She set up two conditions of the experiment. In both conditions‚ participants heard a discussion in the room next door. Condition one – after the discussion‚ the man then came out holding a pen. Condition
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An experiment to investigate the effect of leading questions on memory. UFP: Business Administration Psychology Coursework Abstract This study was a replication of Loftus and Palmer (1974). The aim was to find out whether or not participants who had watched a video clip of a train crush would make different estimates of the speed the trains where travelling according to the question they were asked . This experiment was a laboratory experiment and independent measure
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False Memory Abstract This paper explores published work done by several researchers which sheds light on the growing body of literature of false memory. Memory plays a critical role in human life due the important role it plays in cognition including perception‚ problem solving‚ decision making and many more factors that we face in our everyday life. Memory plays such an imperative role in society that it can be used to save someone’s life in court or take someone’s life away during murder
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allows for convictions. However‚ tests conducted by Loftus have shown an enormous swing from a non-guilty verdict‚ to guilty within the same case‚ simply through the introduction of an eyewitness. This alone displays the importance of eyewitness testimony‚ and accentuates the theory that jurors tend to over believe‚ or at least rely heavily on such accounts. In this essay I shall discuss the work and research contributed by Bartlett‚ and Loftus as to whether accuracy plays a vital role in eyewitness
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EBSCOhost (accessed November 7‚ 2011). Parrish‚ Stephen E. 2005. "The risen Jesus and future hope." Journal Of The Evangelical Theological Society 48‚ no. 1: 189-191. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials‚ EBSCOhost (accessed November 7‚ 2011). Loftus‚ John W. 2011. “Assessing the Minimal Facts Approach of Habermas‚ Licona‚ and Craig.” http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2011/10/assessing-minimal-facts-approach-of.html (Accessed November 7th‚ 2011). David‚ Tony. 2010. “Skeptical of Christian
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often partially or fully inaccurate reconstructions of events. Then‚ this memory phenomenon greatly influences people’s emotionality‚ social expectations‚ implied beliefs of others‚ or inappropriate interpretation (Steffens & Mechklenbrauker‚ 2007). Loftus‚ Feldman‚ and Dashiell suggest that the false memory becomes stronger and more vivid when enough time has passed that original memory has faded. Due to this‚ the eyewitness may confuse misleading post-event information and what they have seen. In
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almost the size of the UK. Thousands have been killed or injured and more than half a million people have been displaced in a humanitarian crisis of a scale not seen in the US since the great depression. The cost of the damage may top $100 billion’ (Pickrell 2005). Can New Orleans Hospital return to a safe workplace after Hurricane Katrina? After several months of Hurricane Katrina‚ people began returning home. Rebuilding started from people’s homes because people were considered to be the main
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A key example of that is asking an interviewee “if they saw a broken headlight”‚ or “if they saw the smashed headlight”. (Eyewitness‚ n.d.). This theory was shown by Loftus and Palmer. Changing the single word of “a” to “the” changes the interviewees perception because it is a potentially true fact about a car collision thus prompting the interviewee to take it as real.Constructive memory was described as the notion
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One study of eyewitness testimony (EWT) was by Loftus and Palmer. Their aim was to see whether asking leading questions had any effect on recall. The method used was a laboratory experiment and had two parts to it. The first was showing participants (Ppts) 7 films of car accidents. Participants were then asked questions‚ including “How fast were the cars travelling when they **** each other?” The asterisks were then replaced with a different verb‚ including “smashed” and “hit.” The second part
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accident a year later (Loftus 522)." People may forget the experience but only for a short period of time. "An estimate was obtained in a study of 100 women in outpatient treatment for substance abuse in a New York City hospital. More the one half of the women in this sample reported memory of childhood sexual abuse. The vast majority of them remembered the abuse their whole lives. Only 18% claimed that they forgot the abuse for a period of time and later regained the memory (Loftus
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