In this week’s Ted Talk, Elizabeth Loftus explained some of her studies on false memories. She investigates when people remember things that did not happen or remember things in a different way. In one of her studies, Loftus showed participants simulated car accidents and then asked them questions to know what they remembered. She asked them, how fast the cars were when they smashed into each other. Using the word “smashed” influenced participants to say that the cars were going really fast and they remembered seeing broken glass in the scene, when in reality there was no broken glass. One of her conclusions was that memory is not a recording device, instead our memories are reconstructive. Memories can be changed by ourselves and others,