A police officer stops you to ask about an automobile accident you may have witnessed the previous day. Since you were in the area at the time of the accident, the officer asks how fast the cars were going when they smashed into each other. Given the research findings of Loftus and Palmer, how might the officer's wording affect your recollection of the incident? You would be more like

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Piper Schmidt

2 June, 07:54

A police officer stops you to ask about an automobile accident you may have witnessed the previous day. Since you were in the area at the time of the accident, the officer asks how fast the cars were going when they smashed into each other. Given the research findings of Loftus and Palmer, how might the officer's wording affect your recollection of the incident? You would be more like

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Macy Yoder · Answer 1

Answer: You would be more like the accident was very serious, and the crash was a big damage.

Explanation: Elizabeth Loftus and John Palmer, studied how the use of verb can affect ones psychological thought while responding. Their discovered that using the verb 'smash' make people to think an accident has caused more damage, than using the verb 'hit'.

It would be more lighter to use the verb 'hit' than the verb smash. The verb smash will likely cause the person to exaggerate an accident, instead of thinking of it, the way is happened.