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Eyewitness Testimony:
Factors affecting
(Anxiety, proximity, weapon…
Eyewitness Testimony:
Factors affecting
(Anxiety, proximity, weapon focus)
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Weapon focus
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Loftus (1987)
- Slides of customer in restaurant
- Customer holding gun
- Same customer holding chequebook
- Ps who saw guns focused on the gun
- Less likely to identify the customer from
chequebook photo
Inverted
U Theory
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Moderate amounts of anxiety:
Improved detail and accuracy up to
an optimal point, after which more anxiety leads to
decline in detail and accuracy
Strenghts
Supporting research
- Shows the different effects on recall
Weaknesses
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Ethical guidelines
- Johnson and Scott (expose Ps to bloody knife)
- Deception and protected from harm