Factors affecting EWT

This graph shows the ________-_________ _____

According to the ___________-________ _______, the intense arousal associated with anxiety would impair memory and reduce the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. 

The ___________ __________ __________ refers to situations when eyewitnesses to crimes involving weapons focuses their attention on the weapon and subsequently fails to remember other details of the crime.   

According to the arousal/threat _________________ , when eyewitnesses see a weapon, this causes a state of anxiety that leads them to focus their attention on the weapon and so miss peripheral details, like the identity of the perpetrator.    

In Johnson and Scott’s (1976) experiment, participants were found to have better memories of a confederate’s appearance when they exited the scene of a staged argument carrying a _______ rather than a bloody knife. 

A limitation of the research into the effect of anxiety on eyewitness testimony is a lack of ___________ validity.  

Name one type of misleading information 

Loftus and Palmer (1974) investigated the effects of ____________ ____________ on eyewitness testimony by asking participants to watch a video clip of a car accident and then estimate how fast one of the cars was going.   

Gabbert (2003) tested post-event discussion by showing participants a video of a robbery. In this experiment, post-event discussion was the... 

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Gabbert (2003) tested post-event discussion by showing participants a video of a robbery. She found that 71% of participants who conferred before giving testimony mistakenly recalled aspects of the event they could not have seen from their footage. ____% of controls did this.