3. Historical Influences
There were many important people that influenced Elizabeth Loftus in establishing her career. Richard Atkinson helped her in completing her master’s thesis on learning spelling via computer-assisted mathematics instruction. Her doctoral thesis on the other hand was supervised by Patrick Suppes. These men were both very inspirational to her. While she was in graduate school, two faculty members were also outstanding mentors to her; these men being Gordon Bower, and Jonathan Freedman. (Koch, 2008, p. 5) According to Christopher Koch, “Freedman taught [her] that [she] could carry out experiments from start to finish. Bower continued to support [her] career, through highs and lows, over the next many decades.” …show more content…
She has assisted the judicial system in learning all about all of the flaws in eye-witness testimony. Her work has become very important in recducing chances of people being falsely accused of something they did not do. Loftus believes that people can develop a false memory; yet many other psychologists disagree with her. They believe that people have trouble retrieving their memories and that is why there is difficulties. These differences have resulted in many different studies being created. According to De Feo, she has created a new understanding of memory in which different researchers are able to build on. (2004)
Elizabeth Loftus spreads her knowledge to people all over the world, and has been on many television shows such as Oprah. In addition, she has published 19 books and almost 200 articles. She is also a speaker for the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. (Born, 1997) She wrote a book titled, “The Myth of Repressed Memory”. It contains three stories of people who were fasely accused of molestation. In this book she attempts to justify those who are innocent so that they do not have to be separated from their families and have the sexual predator label. (Born,
There were many important people that influenced Elizabeth Loftus in establishing her career. Richard Atkinson helped her in completing her master’s thesis on learning spelling via computer-assisted mathematics instruction. Her doctoral thesis on the other hand was supervised by Patrick Suppes. These men were both very inspirational to her. While she was in graduate school, two faculty members were also outstanding mentors to her; these men being Gordon Bower, and Jonathan Freedman. (Koch, 2008, p. 5) According to Christopher Koch, “Freedman taught [her] that [she] could carry out experiments from start to finish. Bower continued to support [her] career, through highs and lows, over the next many decades.” …show more content…
She has assisted the judicial system in learning all about all of the flaws in eye-witness testimony. Her work has become very important in recducing chances of people being falsely accused of something they did not do. Loftus believes that people can develop a false memory; yet many other psychologists disagree with her. They believe that people have trouble retrieving their memories and that is why there is difficulties. These differences have resulted in many different studies being created. According to De Feo, she has created a new understanding of memory in which different researchers are able to build on. (2004)
Elizabeth Loftus spreads her knowledge to people all over the world, and has been on many television shows such as Oprah. In addition, she has published 19 books and almost 200 articles. She is also a speaker for the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. (Born, 1997) She wrote a book titled, “The Myth of Repressed Memory”. It contains three stories of people who were fasely accused of molestation. In this book she attempts to justify those who are innocent so that they do not have to be separated from their families and have the sexual predator label. (Born,