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"It is clear that eyewitness testimony is entirely unreliable". To what extent does psychological research support this view on eyewitness testimony? 18 marks Plan - Studies which back up this view Loftus and Palmer 1974 Loftus et al. 1987 Loftus and Burns 1982 Wagenaar and Groeneweg 1990 False memory syndrome Registration Expectations etc. Registration Witness factors/event factors? With regard to the extent of psychological research which supports the view concerning the unreliability of eyewitness testimony, a number of judgements can be made. Firstly, one can refer to a study carried out by Loftus and Palmer in 1974, where one hundred and fifty participants were asked to watch a video of cars colliding, and then fill in a questionnaire about what they saw. The important question involved the speed of the cars at the point of impact. However, the question was phrased differently for different groups of participants. Some were asked "How fast were the two cars going when they hit each other"; others were...

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