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Eyewitness Testimony

Quiz by Anna Coupe

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  • Q1
    Which of these is NOT a factor that has been investigated with EWT?
    Stress.
    Weapon Focus.
    Leading questions.
    Hormones.
    30s
  • Q2
    Leading questions affect memory because they contain:
    schemas.
    stereotypes.
    expectations.
    post-event information.
    30s
  • Q3
    What did Loftus and Palmer find was in people's schemas of car accidents, even without leading questions?
    Loud noise.
    Broken glass.
    Broken headlights.
    Violent impact.
    30s
  • Q4
    Why can post-event information be incorporated into a person's memory?
    Memory is fragile.
    Memory is reconstructive.
    People tell lies.
    People have stereotypes.
    30s
  • Q5
    What is weapon focus?
    When an eye-witness imagines a weapon has been used even if they didn't actually see it.
    When an eye-witness sees a weapon and recall of other details increases.
    When an eye-witness's attention is held by a weapon so recall of other details suffers.
    When an offender uses a weapon in a crime.
    30s
  • Q6
    What do laboratory experiments lack?
    Mundane realism because car crash films are interpreted differently be everyone.
    Reliability because real crimes cannot be repeated.
    Experimental validity because everyone sees different things.
    Ecological validity because films of car crashes are not like real crimes.
    30s
  • Q7
    Why is a crime like a film of a car crash?
    A crime has serious consequences.
    A crime arouses emotions.
    A crime can be over in a few seconds.
    A crime is unexpected.
    30s
  • Q8
    What does a Cognitive Interview start with?
    Free recall.
    Questions about identifying the offender.
    Leading questions.
    Questions about one part of the crime.
    30s
  • Q9
    Which of these is NOT a part of the cognitive interview?
    Context.
    Other perspective.
    Detail.
    Hypnosis.
    30s
  • Q10
    The context part of the cognitive interview...
    ...checks how confident the witness feels about their identification.
    ...asks the witness to consider the crime from just one specific point in the sequence of events.
    ...asks the witness to consider the crime from another person's point of view.
    ...re-creates the scene in the witness's 'mind's eye'.
    30s
  • Q11
    Who did a study that involved genuine eyewitnesses to a robbery in Vancouver?
    Loftus et al
    Yuille and Cutshall
    Loftus and Zanni
    Pickel
    30s
  • Q12
    What did Pickel's study investigate?
    whether threat or unusualness is the most important factor in weapon focus.
    whether being scared affects eye-witnesses' recall of a crime.
    whether leading questions have an effect in a real crime setting.
    whether using the word 'the' (the definite article) creates a leading question.
    30s
  • Q13
    What is the name of the organisation in the US that campaigns to exonerate innocent prisoners?
    The Pardon Project.
    The Innocence Project.
    Death Row Exonerations.
    The Freedom Project.
    30s
  • Q14
    What percentage of miscarriages of justice are estimated to be caused by faulty EWT?
    50%
    25%
    90%
    75%
    30s
  • Q15
    What is Loftus's first name?
    Nancy
    Louise
    Eric
    Elizabeth
    30s

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