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MEMORY IN EVERYDAY LIFE Factors Affecting EWT AGE

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Page 1: MEMORY IN EVERYDAY LIFE MEMORY IN EVERYDAY LIFE Factors Affecting EWT AGE

MEMORY IN EVERYDAY LIFEFactors Affecting EWT

• AGE

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STARTER - RECAP

Complete the gap-fill on the studies from last weeks lesson

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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!

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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

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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