The experiment we will be looking at today is the Loftus and Palmer’s experiment. Elizabeth Loftus is a psychologist that mainly studied memory. She was interested not only in the different types of memory, but the distortion of it as well. She argued that memory can be easily distorted, and this often leads to misleading […]
Month: October 2019
Different Experiments in Psychology: Milgram’s Obedience Study
The experiment we will be talking about today is Milgram’s obedience study. This study can indeed be viewed as another famous study. Stanley Milgram was a psychologist at Yale University. As he watched the Nuremberg Trials, he was surprised at how many soldiers that worked in the holocaust had all the same response. They had […]