PSYCH 111 Chapter #16: Reading Report #16

• School: U of M
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 111
• Professor: Marion Perlmutter

Document Summary

Original title: leading questions and the eyewitness report. Original place of publication: n/a: questions addressed in original study: (list the 2 5 most important questions addressed in the original study) Are memories of an event affected by how a person asks the question: findings of original study: (list the 2 5 most important findings of the original study) If new information is integrated into an original memory, then the person goes through a process of reconstruction and therefore a person"s recall of the memory is altered. False presuppositions in questions will cause a reconstruction process and integrate false information into the memory. In kebbell & giles study in 2000, they review how lawyer"s complicated questions can negatively affect the witnesses accuracy of the memory. In pezdek & blandon-gitlin study in 2003 shows that when witnesses are presented more than one photograph of a suspect, the accuracy of choosing the right person decreases.