Factors Affecting the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony Teaching Resources

(1) Leading Questions and Misleading Information:

-Eyewitness Testimony and Misleading Information PowerPoint, including some short video clips and classroom experiment (based on the Loftus Leading Question Study).Download
– Questions Loftus and Palmer Leading Question Study (video in PowerPoint above)Download
-Loftus and Palmer description of the Leading Question study sortDownload
– Misleading Information Note Taking Sheet for Loftus and Palmer StudyDownload

Click here to access our website notes on the description, evaluation and application of research into leading questions.

(2) Anxiety Effects on Eyewitness Testimony:

– The Weapons Focus Effect PowerPointDownload
– Anxiety Film Strip – draw out the key scenes in the Weapon Focus Effect experiment in order to remember the key points of research procedure, findings and results.Download
– Weapon Focus Effect Research note taking sheetDownload

Click here to access our website description, evaluation and application of research into the affects of anxiety on the accuracy of eyewitness testimony.

(3) The Effects of Age on the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony:

– Age and the effects on EWT fill in the gapsDownload
– The effects of Age on the accuracy of EWT PowerPointDownload
– The Effects of Age on the Accuracy of EWT developing evaluationDownload