Elizabeth Loftus "How reliable is your memory " she talks about how the human memory is not reliable and cannot only effect a person but people around that person.]
Elizabeth Loftus open this talk by talking about a case she was involved in that regarded a man named Steve Titus. Titus was convicted of a crime he didn't commit based on the memory of a victim he never attacked. Titus was arrested and spent time in jail, soon afterwards he was set free because it turned out that they found the actual man and the victims memory was false. Titus lost faith in the legal system and the constant stress of him wanting redemption for the unfairness put upon him led to his life slowly crumbling down and soon ending in his death. Loftus is a psychologist that studies false memory and peoples ability to remember things that never happened.In this Ted talk Loftus goes over certain ways of how our brain can interpret a situation differently than how it actually occurred because the brain basically summarizes the event you see but can manipulate it into something relevant for you to remember. Throughout this entire talk Elizabeth Loftus goes into detail about how are brains are not as reliable as we wish they would be and can really trick us into believing very specific events and situations that never existed in the first place and that can be dangerous.
This talk was not only informational but got me interested in the way the brain functions. It amazes me how our minds can see something or remember something we believe is 100% real but in reality is 100% false in every way. Through this this talk I learned that even certain words or how a person says a sentence can trigger the brain to make predictions or scenarios. In the video Loftus talks about how took random people and showed them a simulated car accident, she then asked a group "how fast did the car hit? " and another "how fast did the cars smash?" using the key word "smash" the brain assumed the cars went faster and therefore gave a higher speed. My favorite line Elizabeth Loftus says in this talk is "Memory is like a Wikipedia page, you can go in there and change it but so can other people."
For people who are interested in psychology and find interest in the different functions of the brain I recommend this video.
Elizabeth Loftus open this talk by talking about a case she was involved in that regarded a man named Steve Titus. Titus was convicted of a crime he didn't commit based on the memory of a victim he never attacked. Titus was arrested and spent time in jail, soon afterwards he was set free because it turned out that they found the actual man and the victims memory was false. Titus lost faith in the legal system and the constant stress of him wanting redemption for the unfairness put upon him led to his life slowly crumbling down and soon ending in his death. Loftus is a psychologist that studies false memory and peoples ability to remember things that never happened.In this Ted talk Loftus goes over certain ways of how our brain can interpret a situation differently than how it actually occurred because the brain basically summarizes the event you see but can manipulate it into something relevant for you to remember. Throughout this entire talk Elizabeth Loftus goes into detail about how are brains are not as reliable as we wish they would be and can really trick us into believing very specific events and situations that never existed in the first place and that can be dangerous.
This talk was not only informational but got me interested in the way the brain functions. It amazes me how our minds can see something or remember something we believe is 100% real but in reality is 100% false in every way. Through this this talk I learned that even certain words or how a person says a sentence can trigger the brain to make predictions or scenarios. In the video Loftus talks about how took random people and showed them a simulated car accident, she then asked a group "how fast did the car hit? " and another "how fast did the cars smash?" using the key word "smash" the brain assumed the cars went faster and therefore gave a higher speed. My favorite line Elizabeth Loftus says in this talk is "Memory is like a Wikipedia page, you can go in there and change it but so can other people."
For people who are interested in psychology and find interest in the different functions of the brain I recommend this video.