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Experiment 4: This experiment was performed in order to demonstrate reconstruction memory and false memories. Three groups watched a ten minute video from the perspective of in the car. The groups were asked 3 types of questions, one was a filler group, another was asked about a barn, and the last about a car parked in front of the barn. The percentages for false presuppositions were as follows: 8.4%, 15.6%, and 29.2% respectively; showing that the questions did affect their memories.

1.       Loftus believes that after the integration of experience into long term memory, there is the integration of new information into memory of original experience. Also after question asked regarding original experience, should be the recall of reconstructed memory with new information. I think his view is accurate, maybe even more so than the original view, because he has studies that back up his view. They prove that people add unnecessary memories into their original memories.

2.       I got the word quiz correct, I think it was due to the fact that I created a story with the words, rather than just trying to remember them. I can understand why people would get them right though, because intersection is the picture that was created in your mind while thinking about all the words, it is a false presupposition.

3.       Investigators often offer false details to fill in the gaps. For the person getting interrogated this is often confusing, and the beginning point for them to create false memories given the situation. Sometimes people admit just because they don’t want to get killed for a crime they didn’t commit, but at the same time, they never committed the crime in the first place. It’s honestly so sad that people can lose so much of their lives in jail, for a crime that has nothing to do with them, and everything to do with the man that questioned them. In the second article a man says: "It went on and on and on throughout the night, with them calling me a liar, telling me I needed to tell the truth. And I kept telling them: 'I am telling you the truth. I didn't do it.' I kept telling them over and over. ... I should have stood my ground." Proving that the conditions created by the interrogation situation caused an untruthful confession, and an unruly conviction. I’m one hundred percent positive this happens more frequently than is released to the public; I know people would be furious we are persecuting the innocent. We are creating false presuppositions and messing with people’s brains morals and thoughts.