Memory Isn T Perfect Analysis

Memory isn't perfect and this can have bad effects for court cases. Elizabeth Loftus has been studying this for a long time and agrees. She says that memories are foldable and most have difficulty identifying people of other races. She also points out how memories can be altered based on how they're presented, such as if the word "smashed" instead of "collided", "hit", or "made contact" can make the witnesses guess a higher speed that the cars were going, with "made contact" having the lowest estimated speed.

She has been consulted for court cases in the past, one being a woman being accused of killing her abusive boyfriend. The vital fact is if the gun was shot in self defense or not. The eyewitnesses disagreed on whether there was a significant