... questions. Statistical analysis showed that the results obtained were significant at the 0.05 level; therefore the null hypothesis was rejected. From this it can be concluded that leading questions somehow disrupt the storage of information of a particular event and affect the recall of this event due to this misinformation. 3 Introduction The cognitive approach deals with memory and eyewitness testimony. It is considered that there is a long-term and short-term memory. Memory is viewed as a means of processing information. It is held in the short-term memory and, if rehearsed, it is then encoded and transferred to the long-term memory from where it can be retrieved. The short-term memory can only hold seven items of information, plus or minus two, for around fifteen seconds. The long-term memory can hold countless bits of information for any length of time. (Cited in Warmington et al, 2002.) There are a number of factors that can ...

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