A football coach asks two spectators about a collision. One is asked, “How fast did the player smash into the defender?” The other is asked, “How fast did t...

Assessment: Psychology 9218 | Paper 1 Mock 01 | Cognition and behaviour Subject: Psychology - 9218

Question 1 Report

A football coach asks two spectators about a collision. One is asked, “How fast did the player smash into the defender?” The other is asked, “How fast did the player contact the defender?”

(a) Which spectator is more likely to estimate the speed as higher? [1]
(b) Explain how the wording could alter the spectator’s memory. [2]

Answer Details

(a) The spectator asked the question using “smashed” [1] (b) The stronger verb is misleading information [1], which may become incorporated into or reconstruct the memory of the collision [1]

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