... the answers given by the participants. This was an experiment. It used repeated measures. The target population was students over the age of 16 at King Edward VI sixth form in Morpeth in the North East of England. The sampling method was non random opportunity sampling and seven participants were chosen. The mean for a definite article is as follows: Yes = 4.4 No = 2.6 The mean for an indefinite article is as follows Yes = 1.6 No = 5.4 In this experiment the alternative hypothesis was accepted and the null hypothesis was rejected as the results showed that that people make more mistakes is asked "did you see the..." than if asked "did you see a ..." therefore this suggests that whether a definite or indefinite article is used in a question can affect the answer given. Introduction Loftus and Zanni (1975) looked at the way ...

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