1. Multiple choice questions
Loftus and Palmer

2. Aims and Objectives Specification unit3:4a, Unit 3:2a and Unit 3:3b.
All students will be able to
Recall AS key issue Reliability of eyewitness testimony
describe and evaluate one of the three studies into eyewitness testimony
describe and evaluate the Loftus and Palmer 1974 Study in detail.
recap lab experiments: reliability, validity, ethics and applied to the study of criminal psychology

3. Q1 Which method was used by Loftus and Palmer? field experiment
natural experiment
quasi experiment
laboratory experiment

4. Q2 What was the design used by Loftus and Palmer?
independent measures design
matched pairs design
repeated measures design
single-subject design

5. Q3 Who were the participants in Experiment 1? students drivers
accident witnesses
accident victims

6. Q4 Which verb was not used in Experiment 1? hit smashed struck
contacted

7. Q5 What was the dependent variable in Experiment 1?
number of accidents recalled
broken glass seen
estimate of speed
written account of accident

8. Q6 What was shown to participants in Experiment 1? videos of accidents
film clips of accidents
photographs of accidents
CCTV of accidents

9. Q7 Which of the following was a dependent variable in Experiment 2?
estimate of size of car
whether broken glass seen
participants written account of accident
whether participant passed driving test

10. Q8 Which verb gave the highest speed estimate in Experiment 1? bumped
hit
collided
smashed

11. Q9
How many participants were there in Experiment 2? 45 15
150 50

12. Q10 Which of these was not a group of participants in Experiment 2?
control
‘hit'
‘contacted'
‘smashed'

13. Q11
How long was left between showing the films and asking about the broken glass?
24 hours
1 hour
1 week
1 month

14. Q12 Which group(s) 'saw' most broken glass? ‘smashed' and ‘hit'
control
control and ‘hit'

15. Q13 What did Loftus and Palmer conclude about leading questions?
They can influence memory.
They have no effect on memory.
They only effect students.
They only work with car accidents.

16. Q14 What two types of information affect our memory?
before and after an event
before and during an event
during and after an event
immediately after and a long time after

17. Q15 What is a leading question?
A question that leads a person to give a certain answer.
A question that leads a person to give a wrong answer.
A question that leads a person to give a right answer.
A question that leads a person to lie.