The role of emotional and factual retelling on memory accuracy in eyewitness testimony

Eyewitnesses are normally talking about the crimes they have seen and involved in based on their memory. Different ways on how an eyewitness talks about the crime can influence the information collected. This research is aimed to investigate the differences of pre-retelling and post-retelling on mem...

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Main Author: Lau, Choon Ning
Format: Final Year Project Report / IMRAD
Language:English
English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2015
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12230/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12230/1/Ning.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12230/3/Lau%20Choon%20Ning%20ft.pdf
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description Eyewitnesses are normally talking about the crimes they have seen and involved in based on their memory. Different ways on how an eyewitness talks about the crime can influence the information collected. This research is aimed to investigate the differences of pre-retelling and post-retelling on memory accuracy and error between emotion, factual and control conditions. 30 participants were involved in the research. Those participants were requested to watch a video about a robbery for 3 minutes and recall the events by listing down the related details. Then, they were assigned to three different retelling conditions which are factual, emotional and control condition. The participants would be retelling the events in different ways based on the conditions. Stratified random sampling technique was used in this research so that the numbers of male and female participants were equal. Repeated measure ANOYA was used to test the hypotheses ofthe study. Result showed that emotion can affects the eyewitness memory significantly.
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spelling unimas-122302024-02-21T07:49:14Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12230/ The role of emotional and factual retelling on memory accuracy in eyewitness testimony Lau, Choon Ning H Social Sciences (General) Eyewitnesses are normally talking about the crimes they have seen and involved in based on their memory. Different ways on how an eyewitness talks about the crime can influence the information collected. This research is aimed to investigate the differences of pre-retelling and post-retelling on memory accuracy and error between emotion, factual and control conditions. 30 participants were involved in the research. Those participants were requested to watch a video about a robbery for 3 minutes and recall the events by listing down the related details. Then, they were assigned to three different retelling conditions which are factual, emotional and control condition. The participants would be retelling the events in different ways based on the conditions. Stratified random sampling technique was used in this research so that the numbers of male and female participants were equal. Repeated measure ANOYA was used to test the hypotheses ofthe study. Result showed that emotion can affects the eyewitness memory significantly. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2015 Final Year Project Report / IMRAD NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12230/1/Ning.pdf text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12230/3/Lau%20Choon%20Ning%20ft.pdf Lau, Choon Ning (2015) The role of emotional and factual retelling on memory accuracy in eyewitness testimony. [Final Year Project Report / IMRAD] (Unpublished)
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
Lau, Choon Ning
The role of emotional and factual retelling on memory accuracy in eyewitness testimony
title The role of emotional and factual retelling on memory accuracy in eyewitness testimony
title_full The role of emotional and factual retelling on memory accuracy in eyewitness testimony
title_fullStr The role of emotional and factual retelling on memory accuracy in eyewitness testimony
title_full_unstemmed The role of emotional and factual retelling on memory accuracy in eyewitness testimony
title_short The role of emotional and factual retelling on memory accuracy in eyewitness testimony
title_sort role of emotional and factual retelling on memory accuracy in eyewitness testimony
topic H Social Sciences (General)
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12230/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12230/1/Ning.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12230/3/Lau%20Choon%20Ning%20ft.pdf