November 29, 2021 Meeting with Dr. Rocchio

November 29, 2021 Meeting with Dr. Rocchio • Loftus studies are laboratory based; lot of her research has been done with credible person telling someone that something happened to them; Loftus studies say can get people to endorse false details and experiences that haven't occurred • Wouldn't just see something on tv and believe it happened to the person; in most studies, involve someone who subject knows or has reason to trust; no evidence to suggest that lab setting translates into real world memory for traumatic events; fact that someone can't remember certain details or details fade with time is not indication of how true memory is • People lose peripheral details over time, that happens with normal human memory • Lab research has shown that when someone tells a false story, remains less changed over time because it can be rehearsed • Understood notice with Dietz opinion as saying that someone who has PTSD highly unlikely to keep item given by perpetrator • Often