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Eye Witness Testimony
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EYE WITNESS TESTIMONY The language used by the police when interviewing witnesses and barristers during a trial may influence answers given by witnesses, this language may affect initial perception and subsequent recall. Both of these effects are shown in the study by Loftus & Palmer {1974). My experiment into this field showed the leading question with the `verb` contained the information about what the answer should be, thus language can have a distorting effect on EWT, which can lead to inaccurate accounts of the witnessed account. This was most certainly true in the study carried out, most participants gave a higher estimation of speed when the word in the critical question was changed from bumped to crashed, although a small number of participants were unable to estimate any speed at all. However the experiments were carried out by untrained experimenters which could explain possible confounding variables in the way that the...
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