I need some ideas for my coursework, i will play a violent clip to a group of people and some will recieve a standard questionnaire while the others will have leading questions.
Title: Accuracy of Eye Witness Testimony
Do leading questions have an effect on the accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony?
Identify the aim of the research and state the experimental hypothesis
The aim of the experiment is to find out whether Eye Witness Testimonies are reliable and to see whether leading questions can have an effect or change an individual’s opinion on the incident.
anyone got ideas for the design of questionnaire or any other ideas.
2007-03-28 09:22:11 · 3 answers · asked by Redman_Jr 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
No ideas, sorry, but my Neuroscience prof. in college (Baylor) was an eye witness expert... his name is Dr. Charles Weaver... you might look for studies that he's done ??
2007-03-28 09:42:11 · answer #1 · answered by Margaret M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll have to give both sets of witnesses some kind of test to establish a baseline of their reliability to start off with. Otherwise you wont be able to measure how influenced some were by the leading questions. It could be that some of those you give the leading questions to are not very good eyewitnesses to start off with.
2007-03-28 16:29:25 · answer #2 · answered by jeanimus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go on to www.holah.co.uk..and click on core studies.
2007-04-01 05:50:38 · answer #3 · answered by A$H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋