Eyewitness Testimony and Memory Biases

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According to Loftus' research on eyewitness testimony which of the following would you most likely expect to happen when a person witnesses a car accident?

People will often offer biased reports of the event because they are susceptible to misinformation and other recall problems.

Vera and Xavier are both eyewitnesses to a robbery at a convenience store. The police ask them to come to the station to get their versions of the event. According to research by Garry, French, Kinzett, & Mori (2008), what would be most likely to decrease the accuracy of Vera and Xavier's recounting of the crime?

Vera and Xavier are left in the witness room alone together for 20 minutes and they discuss what they saw

Which groups would memory researchers likely say would be the most susceptible to misinformation?

children and older adults

According to eyewitness testimony research, which of the following increases the likelihood of identification errors?

when eye-witnesses are asked to identify a perpetrator from a race other than their own

Dr. Loftus has used a false feedback manipulation to persuade subjects to falsely remember having a variety of childhood experiences. Which of the following best describes this experimental technique?

Participants are deceived to believe a computer system has analyzed questionnaires they previously completed and concluded they had particular experiences years earlier.


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