Psychologists Names And Dates Etc Part 4

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Yerkes-Dodson law

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the curve

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deffenbacher et al (2004)

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Meta-analysis. 18 studies. high levesl of stress acted negatively.

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Christianson and Hubinette (1993)

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Questioned 58 real witnesses to bank robberies. those who had been threatened in some way=better recall and remembered more details than those who had been onlookers or less emotionally aroused. this was true 15 months later.

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Loftus et al (1987)

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WFE. Initial experiment. 2 conditions, with weapon and without. in both particpants heard disucssion in room next to them. In condition 1-man walked out with pen and grease on his hands. condition two the discussion was more heated and man came out with pen knife and convered in blood. when asked to identify man from 50 photos. Participants in number 1=41% 33% for condition 2.

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Loftus et al(1987)b

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monitored eyewitnesses eye movemne,t and found the weapon causes attention to be physically drawn towards itself and away from persons face.

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Parker and Carranza (1989)

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compared ability of primary school and college children. Identify a target following a slide of a mock crime. child witnesses more likely to pick 'somebody' also more likely to make errors.

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Yarmey (1993)

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651 adults in public place and asked them to recall physical characteristics of a young woman whom they had spoken to for 15 secs 2 mins earlier. young and middle aged more confident than older recall no differ.

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Memon et al (2003)

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accuracy of young and older eyewitnesses. when delay was short-35 mins, no difference in accuracy. when delayed by a week, the older were less accurate.