Eyewitness testimon - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

A comprehensive set of handwritten notes suitable for students studying AQA A level psychology. This set focuses specifically on eyewitness testimony and the factors affecting it including leading questions, Anxiety and post-event discussion and the studies to go with them: Loftus and Palmer, Johnson and Scott and Fiona Gabbert. It includes both outline and evaluation.

This detailed essay plan has 4 main points that construct the 4 paragraphs for your essay. Each paragraph follows a point, evidence, explanation (P.E.E.) technique with support studies (e.g Loftus and Palmer 1974, Valentine and Coxon 1997) and further evaluation of the results. The main focus of the points are AO3. The plan is very detailed and is close to a fully developed essay of a top level response. It was written with the help of the AQA A-level Psychology textbook and my class notes.

Involves notes on: - What is Memory? - Coding, Capacity, and Duration - Multi-Store Model of Memory - Working Memory Model - Types of Long-Term Memory - Explanations for Forgetting: Interference - Explanations for Forgetting: Retrieval Failure - Eyewitness Testimony: Misleading Information - Eyewitness Testimony: Anxiety - The Cognitive Interview Involves strengths and weaknesses, images, and a clear explanation of concepts

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Factors affecting eyewitness testimony: Anxiety from the module of Memory has been summarised from the AQA psychology textbook for A LEVEL published by Illuminate Publishing.

This is a full essay that was awarded 16 marks by a teacher, this essay contains a full outline and 3 evaluations as needed for full marks. The essay question is: 'Outline and evaluate research into the effects of anxiety on the accuracy of eyewitness testimony.'