PSY344H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Elizabeth Loftus, Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor, Yield Sign
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It is surprisingly easy to distort and/or create memories. Memory is strongly influenced by our views, attitudes and beliefs at the time of recall. Reform party mp jack ramsay: he was accused of sexually assaulting a young first nations aboriginal female in. No one was there, and he had asked her if she was a virgin. At this point their stories diverged; she said she proceeded to have sex with her, while he said he was disgusted with himself and took her back home. She also had the same memory that she was taken home by him: she is an alcoholic and drug addict; and has been sexually assault by another. Rcmp officer (maybe she"s confabulating these two stories?) Also, he was not at the funeral she claimed to see him at that resurfaced the memory. Elizabeth loftus" studies: asked children to vividly imagined to get their finger caught in a mousetrap, and to vividly remember the consequences of that.
