nd Cutshall 培训讲义.pptVIP

9. This study is valid because… Answers Vancouver, Canada 2 (thief), 6 (owner) 21 (witnesses), 13 (research interview) 4/5 months a/the yellow panel No – stress did not affect recall negatively Accurate (or something similar will do!) Difficult to generalise from a unique incident and may have been a ‘flashbulb’ memory so difficult to compare to lab exp findings Valid as it was a field study investigating real life incident Yuille and Cutshall (1986) A case study of eyewitness memory of a crime. Can the findings of laboratory based EWT studies be generalised to more realistic situations? Problems With EWT Lab Based Studies Slide sequences and filmed events are not relevant to real work events Lack of seriousness or consequences of actual events There are ethical issues if participants are deceived into thinking an event is real. Problems With EWT Lab Based Studies Problems with the participants. 41 research articles about EWT from 1974 – 1982 (38 of them, 92%) tested students only (according to Brain, 2009). Therefore, field observation are required to help generalise lab study findings. Background to Yuille and Cutshall, 1986) One spring afternoon in Vancouver, Canada, a thief entered a gun shop, tied up the owner and stole some money and guns. The owner freed himself and picked up a revolver. He went outside to take the car registration number but the thief had not got into the car and he fired two shots at the store owner from a distance of about 6 feet. The owner, after a short pause, fired all 6 shots from his revolver. The thief was killed but the store owner recovered from serious injury. Witnesses viewed the scene from different locations – passing cars, buildings or in the street. This case was chosen because… There were enough witnesses to compare accounts. The thief was killed and the weapons and money recovered, so there was a lot of forensic evidence to verify the witness accounts. The death of the thief closed the file, so researc