In the article “Thanks for memories” permanence of memory is not only questioned but also demonstrated through ingenious experiments that memory changes due to intervening external factors. There is a strong belief among common people that eye-witness reports are accurate and the narration by them is precise account of events that they have seen. Elizabeth Loftus is the pioneering psychologist who has demonstrated that human memory is not static, but a changing cognitive phenomenon having application in many fields, especially eyewitness testimony.
The research article is an attempt to illustrate that the questions people ask to a person can alter his or ...