Did the wording of the question affect how fast participants thought the car was moving when it came into view? Compare the speed estimates below.

Feel free to copy this data to a statistical analysis program. The appropriate statistics to use is the between-groups t-test.

This activity was inspired by research conducted by Loftus & Palmer:

• Loftus, E.F. & Palmer, J.C. (1974) Reconstruction of auto-mobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour, 13, 585 -589

Instructors: I am happy to give you copies of these files so you can use them with your own class. Email me at: michael@thepsychfiles.com