PSYCH 111 Chapter Reading #16: Reading Report 8

• School: U of M
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 111
• Professor: Marion Perlmutter

Document Summary

Original title: leading questions and the eyewitness report. Original place of publication: cognitive psychology: questions addressed in original study: (list the 2 5 most important questions addressed in the original study) How accurate is memory recreation to how the events actually unfolded: findings of original study: (list the 2 5 most important findings of the original study) An accurate theory of memory and recall must include a process of reconstruction when new information is added into the original memory of the event. New information causes the original memory of the event to be altered: extensions of original study (list the 2 5 most important advances made by subsequent research in this area) Loftus"s findings were applied to another memory study reporting on fantastic memory, in which they tested if memories that bear greater similarity to fantasy than reality were remembered more vividly. Loftus"s studies continuously influence the way attorneys view eyewitness testimony.