Elizabeth Loftus False Memory

The study I decided to choose was Elizabeth Loftus’ false memory study. I chose this study to learn more about all of the innocent people who were falsely accused due to the victims’ or eyewitness’ false memory. I wanted to learn about why and how they could have been sent to jail for 10 plus years for a crime they did not commit.
Elizabeth wanted to figure out what it was that could be done to distort a person’s memory. She used the experimental method to help answer her question of the malleability of memories. Loftus showed participants of the study simulated crimes and accidents and then asked them questions about what they remember from the scene. In the first study, she showed people a simulated accident and then asked some people how