GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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Question
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Elizabeth Loftus
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Diana Baumrind
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Stanley Milgram
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James Lange
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Detailed explanation-1: -Elizabeth Loftus is an American cognitive psychologist that is known for her research on memory and the reliability of eyewitness testimony. Research on the reliability of eyewitness testimony is important because it can lead to innocent people being wrongfully convicted in court proceedings.
Detailed explanation-2: -Elizabeth Loftus studies human 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. The legal field, so reliant on memories, has been a significant application of the memory research.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dr. Loftus is well known for her research on human memory, notably false memories. Dr. Loftus has been honored by APA’s review of general psychology as one of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century.
Detailed explanation-4: -Knowing this can tell us that Loftus does not support eyewitness testimony’s fully becuase, “memory is malleable."