Comparing Dr. Loftus's Theories And The Misinformation Effect
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In today’s legal system, a person’s life is put into the hands of eye-witnesses during court battles. Witnessing a crime or murder is often traumatizing and can cause psychological disorders. This can also affect emotions, memories, reactions, and communication. I believe that too much weight is put onto eye-witness accounts because of Loftus’s theory and the misinformation effect. Dr. Loftus stated in her theory that memory is not an unchanging, stable process but rather is a constantly changing one. The misinformation effect is the tendency of misleading information presented after an event to alter the memories of the event itself. Both of these theories have an impact on eye-witness accounts and can ultimately affect the ruling of a case.