Ramona Family Case, The
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus talks about the case of the Ramona family, which was torn apart after daughter Holly went through therapy that led to her remembering alleged abuses which she claims occurred years earlier at the...
The Becoming Years: Aging and Cognitive Changes
Certain physical and cognitive changes are inevitable with aging. Older adults will have trouble remembering names and show a greater tendency to have false memories. Correlational evidence, however, suggests that an active mind is a healthy mind. D...
False Memories (Part One)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus talks about the controversy that surrounds the subject of false or repressed memories. "Some insurance companies have refused to insure psychotherapists if they do recovered memory therapy," Dr. ...
Suggestive Techniques
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus talks about some of the techniques used to spur the recollection of supposedly repressed memories. "But it's exactly these techniques," Dr. Loftus says, "...that I and others have worried are so ...
False Memory Research
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus talks about research experiments that look at consequences and repercussions after false memories have been planted in the minds of experiment subjects. Dr. Loftus also touches on some potential ...
False Memories (Part Two)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus continues her discussion of false or repressed memories. Dr. Loftus explains that, while there are genuine cases of repressed memory, there are also those which she calls the "hey, me, too, cases...
Proving That The Mind is Malleable
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus talks about experiments in which suggestions are planted in the minds of subjects about incidents in their own lives that never actually happened. "You can plant really rich, false memories---det...
When A Study Ends
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus talks about the reactions of her subjects when research studies end. "After having debriefed more than two thousand subjects in whom I've attempted to plant a false memory over the last quarter c...
Neuroimaging
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus talks about the use of neuroimaging and other techniques which she believes will increasingly be utilized to show which aspects of the brain are activated during memory processes.