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Elizabeth Loftus: False Memory

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The speech from Elizabeth Loftus “The Fiction of Memory” she mentions that she study false memory for almost 30 years. False memory is the things that people remember but didn’t happened or remember it differently than the way they really were. After watch the video “The Fiction of Memory” by Elizabeth Loftus, I realize that false memory can be affect on everyone. In my personal experience; sometime I went to the place that I never been there before, but I will believe that is place I have been when I was child. False memory can be given by someone else and effect on your own; for example, when my friend and I planed to go to some place and I am the one driving the car. After we arrived there and I lock the car, but my friend will always

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