When john began his favorite uncle burton with his finances, he discovered his uncle was still renting a rotary-dial telephone from the phone company. uncle burton had paid thousands of dollars in phone rental fees over the previous forty years. uncle burton is a(n) in the diffusion of innovation process for telephones.

Uncle Burton is a laggard in the diffusion of innovation process for telephones.

Explanation:

Uncle Burton is a laggard because he has refused to adopt the new technologies in the field of communications. Some people prefer to use devices they are used to than new ones even if they have to pay more for them. Maybe they do it because they consider new ones quite difficult to use or they are just focused on traditions.  In general, elderly people are in this category.

elizabeth loftus conducted a study to observe the reliability of eyewitnesses during the 1970s. their baseline was to define how accurate are the recollections of eyewitnesses.

her studies do not support the use of eyewitness. loftus mentions in her work that we are not required to recall some experiences, meaning that rarely an individual eyewitness testimony is trustworthy. a good example is presented in her work, where all individuals watched a video and were than asked "about how fast were the cars going when they hit/smash? ". the testimonies changed based on the word she used to make the question (hit or smash), proving the fragility.

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