Author Question: In the leading questions/memory distortion work by Loftus, people were shown a video of a car crash ... (Read 36 times)

skymedlock · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

In the leading questions/memory distortion work by Loftus, people were shown a video of a car crash and then asked how fast the cars were going when they hit/smashed/collided/bumped/contacted each other.

The between-group difference in the immediate report of the speeds the cars were traveling (e.g., across the smashed and contacted groups) likely indicates __________.
a. suggestibility
b. false memory
c. memory impairment
d. all of the above

Question 2

In the Bransford & Franks (1971) experiment, people incorrectly reported recognizing the three phrase The ants ate the sweet jelly that was on the table

as an old sentence despite the fact that that particular set of propositions had never been presented together in one sentence. This type of error illustrates __________.
a. a false alarm
b. evidence for semantic integration
c. poor technical accuracy
d. All of the above