Question 1

Which of these is NOT a factor that has been investigated with EWT?

Accepted Answer

Hormones.

Answer

Stress.

Answer

Weapon Focus.

Answer

Leading questions.

Question 2

Leading questions affect memory because they contain:

Accepted Answer

post-event information.

Answer

schemas.

Answer

stereotypes.

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expectations.

Question 3

What did Loftus and Palmer find was in people's schemas of car accidents, even without leading questions?

Accepted Answer

Broken glass.

Answer

Loud noise.

Answer

Broken headlights.

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Violent impact.

Question 4

Why can post-event information be incorporated into a person's memory?

Accepted Answer

Memory is reconstructive.

Answer

Memory is fragile.

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People tell lies.

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People have stereotypes.

Question 5

What is weapon focus?

Accepted Answer

When an eye-witness's attention is held by a weapon so recall of other details suffers.

Answer

When an eye-witness imagines a weapon has been used even if they didn't actually see it.

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When an eye-witness sees a weapon and recall of other details increases.

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When an offender uses a weapon in a crime.

Question 6

What do laboratory experiments lack?

Accepted Answer

Ecological validity because films of car crashes are not like real crimes.

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Mundane realism because car crash films are interpreted differently be everyone.

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Reliability because real crimes cannot be repeated.

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Experimental validity because everyone sees different things.

Question 7

Why is a crime like a film of a car crash?

Accepted Answer

A crime can be over in a few seconds.

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A crime has serious consequences.

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A crime arouses emotions.

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A crime is unexpected.

Question 8

What does a Cognitive Interview start with?

Accepted Answer

Free recall.

Answer

Questions about identifying the offender.

Answer

Leading questions.

Answer

Questions about one part of the crime.

Question 9

Which of these is NOT a part of the cognitive interview?

Accepted Answer

Hypnosis.

Answer

Context.

Answer

Other perspective.

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Detail.

Question 10

The context part of the cognitive interview...

Accepted Answer

...re-creates the scene in the witness's 'mind's eye'.

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...checks how confident the witness feels about their identification.

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...asks the witness to consider the crime from just one specific point in the sequence of events.

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...asks the witness to consider the crime from another person's point of view.

Question 11

Who did a study that involved genuine eyewitnesses to a robbery in Vancouver?

Accepted Answer

Yuille and Cutshall

Answer

Loftus et al

Answer

Loftus and Zanni

Answer

Pickel

Question 12

What did Pickel's study investigate?

Accepted Answer

whether threat or unusualness is the most important factor in weapon focus.

Answer

whether being scared affects eye-witnesses' recall of a crime.

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whether leading questions have an effect in a real crime setting.

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whether using the word 'the'  (the definite article) creates a leading question.

Question 13

What is the name of the organisation in the US that campaigns to exonerate innocent prisoners?

Accepted Answer

The Innocence Project.

Answer

The Pardon Project.

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Death Row Exonerations.

Answer

The Freedom Project.

Question 14

What percentage of miscarriages of justice are estimated to be caused by faulty EWT?

Accepted Answer

75%

Answer

50%

Answer

25%

Answer

90%

Question 15

What is Loftus's first name?

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth

Answer

Nancy

Answer

Louise

Answer

Eric

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