House of Games: Question Smash: 104 New, Classic and Fiendishly Difficult Rounds

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In this study, 150 participants were put into three different groups but all watched the same film (in smaller groups). The film showed an accident involving many cars and the entire film lasted for less than one minute and the accident part of film lasted 4 seconds. After the participants watched the film, they were given a questionnaire. The first question was again open-ended and asked the participants to describe the accident in their own words. This was followed by a series of specific questions, with one critical question. Once again the results showed that the speed estimates of those asked about the cars with the verb “smashed” were higher than those with the verb “hit” (10.46mph and 8.00mph respectively). Memory is a reconstructive process, which means memories are actively and consciously rebuilt when we are trying to remember certain things. Elizabeth Loftus, her colleagues and others studying this cognitive phenomenon have shown that during the reconstruction phase our memories can be distorted if we are given false information about the event – this is called the misinformation effect. I f you have ever watched ‘Richard Osman’s House of Games’ you will be familiar with the final round every day of answer smash. For those unfamiliar you have to ‘smash’ two answers together to get the answer we are looking for, e.g. Question 4: Who would you want as your mentor? Master Roshi from Dragon Ball or Jiraiya from Naruto?

There was no broken glass in the video clip and the participants who were questioned previously using the verb smashed, were significantly more likely to report seeing the broken glass, as a result of the earlier leading question. The verb smashed has connotation of faster speeds and broken glass and this question led the participants to report seeing something that was not actually present. Their memory for the original event was distorted by the question used one week earlier, demonstrating the power of leading questions. What is the first Railway station after GO on a UK Monopoly board and a set of cryptic clues found in newspapers? The results clearly show that the accuracy of eyewitness testimony is affected by leading questions and that a single word in a question can significantly affect the accuracy of our judgements. Loftus and Palmer’s research has questionable ecological validity. On the one hand, questioning participants about everyday events like a car crash appears to be a genuine measure of eyewitness testimony. However, the participants in their research watched a video of a car crash and witnessed the events unfold from start to finish. In everyday reports of car accidents, witnesses rarely see the whole event; they are either involved in the event directly, or see a small part of the event happen in their peripheral vision. Therefore, their results to do reflect everyday car accidents and we are unable to conclude if participants involved in real accidents, who would have a stronger emotional connection to the event, would also be susceptible to leading questions in the same way.Is this study limited in population validity? For example, look at the accuracy of their guesses in the first experiment – is this evidence that perhaps these results might not apply to other groups of people? (Think about experience). But this data doesn’t provide strong support for this hypothesis so they conducted a second experiment, which will be explained in the next section. These results provide some evidence for the explanation that the misinformation effect was occurring. Perhaps the verb “smashed” was influencing people’s recollections of the crash and they were remembering it as being more severe than it really was, which is why they could remember seeing broken glass even when there wasn’t any in the original video. In the following two experiments, Loftus and Palmer first studied the effects verbs in questions on speed estimates and also if these verbs could impact memory in other ways.

For the IA, I would not use the broken glass version of the experiment as it gathers nominal data and this makes the inferential stats a little more difficult. The best option is to choose two verbs from the first study and replicate that. Bing Crosby's White Christmas is the best-selling Christmas song with more than more than 50 million copies sold Loftus and Palmer (1974) conducted a classic experiment to investigate the effect of leading questions on the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. Which friend of Statler in The Muppets looked like a creamy nutty apple sliced on a bed of lettuce? Here are the results regarding the memory of seeing broken glass: Distribution of “Yes” and “NO” Responses for Different ConditionsIf the verb smashed significantly increased the memory of broken glass when there was none, this is stronger evidence to show that the verb was acting as false information which was actually changing the memories of participants in this condition. Question 8: When it comes to superpowers, are you more intrigued by My Hero Academia’s quirks or Hunter x Hunter’s Nen abilities? Twelfth Night is the night before Epiphany and is the night, tradition says, when Christmas decorations should be taken down There are two questions to answer, and the two answers must be ‘smashed together’ to form one winning answer.