The study supports the research hypothesis which was that there would be a correlation between the intensity

of the verb used when asking a subject how fast the car in the video was travelling at the moment of the car crash and the estimated speed they gave in response. Like in Loftus and Palmers study, when the verb became more intense, the speed guessed by participants rose also. This means that this study supports the findings of Loftus and Palmer. Despite the fact that the results support the research hypothesis, there were several problems which would need to be addressed if this study were to be replicated in the future. One obvious flaw was that the actual speed of the car in the video was unknown. This would have been very good data to have as it would be able to ascertain which group, or which verb, was guessing closest to the actual speed of the car. While not necessary in any way to test the theory that language can affect memory reconstruction, it would still have been good information to have. A major flaw in the study was the extremely small groups of participants. Having only 6 people per group makes the results extremely insignificant, as 6 people cannot be used to represent the general population. Many modifications could be made to address the limitations of the research conducted in study. As stated above, both knowing the actual speed the car in the video travelled at and having a larger sample of participants would help improve the experiment if it were to be replicated. One small improvement would be better verbs used as the independent variable. Specifically the word bumped was a very poor choice of word as it instantly aroused suspicion among Group A, as the word bump would never normally be used to describe a car accident. Another possible improvement that could be made to the experiment would be retaining more information about the test subjects, such as age, gender and ethnicity. While these sets of information werent taken in order to follow suit with Loftus and Palmers study, if they had been taken then interesting information could be monitored, such as which gender let their memory be influenced more by language etc. In conclusion, the findings fully support the research hypothesis that language can have an effect on memory reconstruction. Similarly to the findings of Loftus and Palmer, the study suggested that the language used when questioning a participant had a direct effect on how they remembered the event, thus suggesting a strong correlation between the two.

The study supports the research hypothesis which was that there would be a correlation between the intensity of the verb used when asking a subject how fast the car in the video was travelling at the moment of the car crash and the estimated speed they gave in response. Like in Loftus and Palmers study, when the verb became more intense, the speed guessed by participants rose also. This means that this study supports the findings of Loftus and Palmer. There are multiple reasons that the word used in questioning the subjects could have an effect on their answers, and one such reason could be the result of Piagets schema theory. Schema theory dictates that people have frameworks based around objects or words which help them to understand and recognise them. The results of this experiment could be

attributed to the participants schemas of the words used in questioning them about the speed of the car in the video. For example, a participants schema for the word bumped could be an instance in which two objects collide at a relatively slow speed, whereas their schema for the word smashed could be an instance in which two objects collide at a relatively high speed. Despite the fact that the results support the research hypothesis there were several problems which would need to be address if this study were to be replicated in the future. One obvious flaw was the extremely small groups of participants. Having only six participants per group make the results insignificant, as 6 people cannot be used to represent the general population. This was an unavoidable error due to the fact that there was both limited funds and limited time in regards to conducting the study itself, due to being a school assignment conducted by a college student. Many modifications could be made to address the limitations of the research conducted in this study. One such limitation was the lack of information recorded about the participants. With information such as age, gender or ethnicity, more conclusions could be drawn from the study, such as whether ones age or gender has any impact on how much use of language can affect their recall.