CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has been particularly concerned with how subsequent information can affect an eyewitness’s account of an event. Her main focus has been on the influence of (mis)leading information in terms of both visual imagery and wording of questions in relation to eyewitness testimony.

Detailed explanation-2: -History. In the 1970s, researcher Elizabeth Loftus conducted a now-famous experiment on memory malleability using police tapes of car accidents. She showed the tape of a car crash and asked participants to predict the speed of the cars.

Detailed explanation-3: -Elizabeth Loftus, PhD, is one of the nation’s leading experts on memory. 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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Misleading information can affect the accuracy of an eyewitness’s recall. The research that was pioneered by Loftus and colleagues has demonstrated that the reports of eyewitnesses can be influenced by information introduced after the event.