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In loftus and palmer's classic 1974 experiment, participants answered questions about a motor vehicle accident. the central findings of the experiment revealed that:

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the experiment revealed that people who answered questions that implied that the vehicles were traveling at a faster rate gave high speed estimates.
This results indicated that someone's memory could easily be confused and influenced by simply presenting an information in a certain way that increase the tendency of the subject to conform to other point of views.
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