7. A researcher carried out an experiment to investigate misleading information. Participants

were shown a photograph in which a man and a woman were talking. The photograph

was then taken away and the participants were asked questions about it. Participants

were randomly allocated to condition one or condition two.

Participants in condition one were asked:

Question A "How old was the youth in the photograph?"

Participants in condition two were asked:

Question B "How old was the man in the photograph?"

a) Why is Question A an example of misleading information?

b) Name an appropriate experimental design which could be used in this experiment.

Explain why a repeated measures design would be unsuitable to use in this

experiment./nc) Explain why it would be appropriate to use a pilot study as part of this experiment.

d) In this experiment, participants were asked to look at a photograph rather than

watch a live conversation. Explain one strength and one limitation of carrying out

the experiment in this way.

e) Outline and evaluate research into the effects of misleading information on

eyewitness testimony.

The total word limit for question 7 is 600 words. This does not include calculations.