MEMORY IN EVERYDAY LIFE MEMORY IN EVERYDAY LIFE Factors Affecting EWT AGE

STARTER - RECAP  Complete the gap-fill on the studies from last weeks lesson

How can we interpret this in terms of anxiety and EWT?

Learning Objectives  To describe research into the effect of age on accuracy of eye witness testimony  To evaluate research into the effect of age on accuracy of eye witness testimony  To apply lesson knowledge to answer a past exam question

Anastasi and Rhodes (2006) – Own Age Bias  3 participant groups – young, middle and older – what is the experimental design???  Shown 24 photos of people representing all 3 age groups  Then had a distraction task  Then shown 48 photos – 24 (the ones they’d seen) 24 new faces  Participants had to correctly identify the faces they’d seen

Anastasi and Rhodes (2006) – Own Age Bias  What does this study tell us about age and EWT?

Anastasi and Rhodes (2006) – Own Age Bias  Evaluation Strengths – Weaknesses –  Think about the experimental method used and the setting – good and bad points to this  Think about applying to EWT – is it an effective test of this? Is it useful?

BUT….  Yarmey (1993) – see cognitive booklet  Found that there was no significant difference between someone's age and their ability to recall the physical characteristics of a person they had met earlier  Write some evaluative points to Yarmey’s research in your booklets – again, think about how the experiment can relate to EWT in real-life

Your Task  Complete the rest of the section in your booklet using the textbook (Page 102) – looking at children and accuracy of EWT  EXTENSION – EXAM QUESTION 1. Plan an answer to the following question: “Outline and evaluate research into the effect of age on EWT” (12 marks) 2. Start writing the answer!

Ceci and Bruck – Children as witnesses  Interviewer bias – leading questions, want to get the child to confirm their own thoughts  Repeated questions – children change answer second time  Stereotype induction – assume negative things about someone they have previously heard bad stuff about  Encouragement to imaging – if think to hard they will imagine things that didn’t happen  Peer pressure – information from others  Authority figures – desire to please detectives

Kent and Yuille (1987)  Found that 9 years olds were more likely than 14 year olds to pick someone from a line-up even though the person they had seen earlier wasn’t actually there

Learning Objectives  All of you will be able to: - Describe research into the effect of age on accuracy of eye witness testimony - Evaluate research into the effect of age on accuracy of eye witness testimony  Some of you will be able to: - Apply lesson knowledge to answer a past exam question