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Corall Ogugua. Seminar essay 3 - Eyewitness Testimony Elizabeth Loftus has conducted many studies on eyewitness testimony (EWT). In 1974 she worked with John Palmer to look at the ways that memory can be distorted. The studies general aim was to explore the accuracy of memory after witnessing a car accident. In particular it was to find out if leading questions distort the accuracy of eyewitness's immediate recall. It also aimed to see if it was true that people were open to hints, as people are extremely bad at estimating the speed of moving cars. 45 students were shown 7films of different traffic accidents. After each film, participants were given a questionnaire asking them to describe the accident and then answer a sequence of specific questions about it. The questionnaire contained one critical question 'about how fast were the cars going when they hit each other'. This was given to 1 group...

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