The unreliable archive: how memory rewrites the past
A psychology lecture on memory as reconstruction, from Loftus's car-crash study to eyewitness errors; students take notes and summarize.
C2Adults55 minLecture
About this lesson
A C2 listening lesson (lecture). Dialogues and stories to listen to, with transcripts, speed control and ready-made questions.
- Level
- C2
- Skill
- Listening
- Type
- Lecture
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 55 minutes
- Topic
- Mind & psychology
- Activities
- Speaking / writing task, Key words, Listening (read aloud), Multiple choice, Gap-fill, Matching
- Key words
- reconstruction, fragment, to overstate, to drift, wrongful conviction, to contaminate, leading question
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Take detailed notes on an academic lecture about memory research
- Understand how a lecturer presents evidence, qualifies claims and draws conclusions
- Summarize a lecture accurately in your own words