Question

A police officer stops Ashanta to ask about an automobile accident she may have witnessed the previous day. Since she was in the area at the time of the accident, the officer asks how fast the cars were going when they "smashed" into each other. Given the research findings of Loftus and Palmer, how might the officer's wording affect Ashanta's recollection of the incident? She would be more likely to remember:

Answer 1

Smashed condition reported the highest speed estimated (40.8 mph)

Explanation:

Loftus and Palmer's study on eyewitness was published in 1974. the study aimed to test the hypothesis that the language used in eye-witness testimony can alter the memory of a person. . In the first experiment, both the experimenter took 45 American students. It was a laboratory experiment with 7 accidents ranging from 5 to 30 seconds. After watching the clip, the subjects asked to describe what happened in the movie. they asked the specific question as to how fast the car was going?

The subjects who asked smashed question thought that the car was in so high speed as

• Smashed 40.8 mph.
• Collided (39.3)
• Bumped (38.1)
• Hit (34 mph)
• Contacted (31.8 mph) in descending order.

The result finding was that the verb conveyed an impression of the speed of the car was traveling and this all things altered the perception of eye witness perception.