@article{ref1,
title="Improving eyewitness recall for licence plates",
journal="Applied cognitive psychology",
year="1990",
author="Mackinnon, David P. and O'Reilly, Kim E. and Geiselman, R. Edward",
volume="4",
number="2",
pages="129-140",
abstract="Two methods for maximizing the completeness and accuracy of eyewitness recall for licence plates were evaluated in this research: (1) asking questions derived from generally accepted principles of memory retrieval enhancement (Geiselman, Fisher, Firstenberg, Hutton, Sullivan, Avetissian and Prosk, 1984; Geiselman, Fisher, MacKinnon and Holland, 1985, 1986) and (2) providing subjects with a licence plate simulation device to view and interchange alphanumeric characters. Undergraduate subjects viewed a series of slides portraying a young man, placing a television set in a car and driving down the street. With a seven-character California plate in Experiment 1 (n = 151), subjects in the condition with the simulation device and cognitive interviewing had a significant 22 per cent increase in correct licence plate recall. The results were replicated in Experiment 2 (n = 108) with an 18 per cent increase in correct information using a six-character plate. Errors appeared to be those letters adjacent in the alphabet to the licence plate letters.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0888-4080",
doi="10.1002/acp.2350040205",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acp.2350040205"
}