Elizabeth Loftus’ false memory study. I chose this study to learn more about all of the innocent people who were falsely accused due to the victims’ or eyewitness’ false memory. I wanted to learn about why and how they could have been sent to jail for 10 plus years for a crime they did not commit. Elizabeth wanted to figure out what it was that could be done to distort a person’s memory. She used the experimental method to help answer her question of the malleability of memories. Loftus showed participants
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Jim Loftus Reflection Paper Jim Loftus is a veteran in the radio industry. Although I have no aspirations to pursue a career in radio‚ he provided several insights that are applicable in many aspects of life. Loftus’ story of how he became CEO of More FM resonated with me. Early on in his career he was told that he would not make it in the radio industry. Ironically‚ the same person that told him that‚ he would end up working with that individual several years later. I was able to relate with this
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She claims that memories are a mixture of creative facts and fiction. Loftus then began to conduct a study on rich false memories. Rich false memories are misleading memories that are created by an incident. This happened to Loftus herself. She had a horrible even that led to her denying any memory of the event. 7. There are 3 things that are required for an intelligence test to be accurate and reliable. Validity is how a test measures what it intends to be measured. This can also be called predictive
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Creating False Memories the article writer Elizabeth F. Loftus wrote from her experience in creating false memory some fascinating experiments and some real life situations‚ like the woman who was convinced that she was raped by her father and forced to abort her fetus ‚but when the doctors examined her they found out that she never been pregnant‚ and the other woman who thought she were abused by her family‚ and other examples. The scientific explanation was that the false memory created from
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Cognitive psychology Behaviour can largely be explained in terms of how the mind operates The mind works in a manner which is similar to a computer; inputting‚ storing and retrieving data Multi-store model of memory Akinson and Shiffrin suggested that memory was comprised of three separate stores‚ the Sensory Memory Store‚ the short-term memory and the long-term memory. Each store had a specific and relatively inflexible function. Information is simply rehearsed in the STM and if rehearsed
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The value of sensory memory is challenged by Elizabeth Loftus‚ an American psychologist. In her research article‚ she states that imagining oneself in a position of child sexual abuse can lead their brain into misinterpreting their intentions making them believe they went through the abuse themselves. Confabulation of memories is from when a false event is repeated over and over again in one’s mind. Loftus claims that when a person that thinks they went through the abuse listens to victims talk about
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In this article‚ Loftus analyzed this case through scientific framework. Mr. Gauci‚ went to the first interview nine months after the initial contact and identified Al-Meghari two years after to which she pointed out as the first weak point of the case. Previous research on memories consistently found that memory fades overtime. In this case particularly‚ Mr. Gauci works in the retail business where he sees many faces everyday across the period of time of two years. Therefore‚ unless the customer
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Discussion: The findings of this experiment suggest different results from the original experiment carried out by Loftus and Palmer in 1974‚ as there was no significant difference between the estimated speeds between the two groups because the results were not statically different. The descriptive results showed that the participants in the smashed group estimated a higher speed than the participants of the contacted group‚ (smashed group estimated a speed of 61.375 whereas the contacted group
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Huck Finn vs. Judith Loftus The women presented in the novel so far are mostly smarter than the men presented. One of these women is Judith Loftus. She outsmarts the trickster himself‚ Huck Finn. Mrs. Loftus is a hypocritical maternal figure. Up until this point‚ Huck has been a very good liar. He has been able to outsmart and trick anybody he wants‚ but not Judith Loftus. He is out of his element during his meeting with her. First off‚ he is dressed as a girl. This situation makes
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The article I chose was “Leading Questions and the Eyewitness Report‚” by Elizabeth F. Loftus. This article was a report of the results of four experiments conducted to study the importance of how questions are asked. More specifically‚ how the wording and timing of the question can influence the subject’s answer to that question. The subjects were exposed to events such as disruptions in a classroom or car accidents - things that are sudden and quick. In all four experiments‚ the subjects were all
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