Eye_Witness_Study

Eye Witness Study Memory Recall 1 Running head: EYE WITNESS MEMORY RECALL Eyewitness Memory Recall: The Effects of Anticipation on Accuracy and Confidence Memory Recall 2 Abstract The present study is an examination of memory recall of eyewitnesses and the effects of anticipation on accuracy and confidence in an eyewitness incident. Sixty eight college students participated in the responding to a questionnaire regarding the incident of a crime. Findings revealed no effects of anticipation on accuracy or confidence which may be due to limitations of the procedure, yet did find a relationship between accuracy and confidence. Memory Recall 3 Eyewitness Memory Recall: The Effects of Anticipation on Accuracy and Confidence For years, researchers have been studying the effects on eyewitness recall such as racial bias, complex questioning, accuracy, confidence, and other influential factors effecting eyewitness memory recall. A recent study was conducted by Kebbell and Giles (2001) on the effects of confusing complex questioning in eyewitness testimonies. To illustrate these effects, they showed a videotaped crime incident and then gave one set of participants a questionnaire with complex questions, and the other group a set of simplified questions about the suspect of the crime. The study concluded that those answering the complex questions had a lower score in accuracy, and also a lower confidence, accuracy, group, study, participants, recall, questionnaire, memory, eyewitness, confederate, effects, control, crime, score, experimental, confident, anticipation, , questions, between, two, scores, results, responses, researchers, one, three, students, sixty-eight, relationship, levels, conducted, complex, asked, total