AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

THINKING AND LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How did Elizabeth Loftus’ work change the field of psychology?
A
We learned that you can only remember about 7 facts.
B
We learned that there is a learning and forgetting curve.
C
We learned that eyewitness recall can be false.
D
We learned that insight learning helps to problem solve.
E
We learned that the language you speak determines how you think about the world.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -She has studied false memories as well as recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. Loftus also developed the misinformation effect paradigm, which holds that after exposure to incorrect information, a person may misremember the original event.

Detailed explanation-2: -About the expert: Elizabeth Loftus, PhD Her experiments reveal how memories can be changed by things that we are told. Facts, ideas, suggestions and other post-event information can modify our memories. The legal field, so reliant on memories, has been a significant application of her memory research.

Detailed explanation-3: -Loftus’ findings seem to indicate that memory for an event that has been witnessed is highly flexible. If someone is exposed to new information during the interval between witnessing the event and recalling it, this new information may have marked effects on what they recall.

Detailed explanation-4: -Loftus believed that eyewitness testimony by itself should not be enough to convict a person. Although these studies focused on automobile accidents, the results were applicable to a broad range of complex events.

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