Psychology · Cognitive Psychology
A topic within Cognitive Psychology, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
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Elizabeth Loftus (TED)
Argues from her own experiments that memory is reconstructed rather than recorded, so entirely false episodes can be implanted by suggestion and then recalled with full confidence.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Elizabeth F. Loftus & John C. Palmer
The verb used to ask about a car crash - 'smashed' versus 'hit' - changes both the speed witnesses estimate and what they later claim to have seen, showing memory is reconstructed rather than replayed.
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