LEARNING
BIOLOGY COGNITION AND LEARNING
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Question
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Social and cultural factors influence our memories
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Lab experiments are easy to replicate
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Our minds work like videocameras, recording everything exactly as we see it
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Memories are malleable
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Detailed explanation-1: -Conclusion: This research suggests that memory is easily distorted by questioning technique and information acquired after the event can merge with original memory causing inaccurate recall or reconstructive memory.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Loftus and Palmer set out to study how subsequent information can affect an eyewtinesses’s account of an event. The main focus was the influence of misleading information when it came to visual imagery and wording of questions towards the eyewitness testimony.
Detailed explanation-4: -A weakness of the experimental method as used by Loftus and Palmer is that it lacked ecological validity. This is because participants were expecting to watch a clip therefore likely to remember details whereas in real life people will not expect a car accident to take place.