RECONSTRUCTIVE

Question 1

Reconstructive memory

Answer 1

Memory isn’t tape recording but reconstruction
Prev in affects storage and recall
Retrieve unlikely same

Question 2

Schema

Answer 2

Org info and in ABT world aka perception
Eg restaurant bustling service and food

Question 3

Schema analysis

Answer 3

Aids to link info in kn
+Short cut save processing power
- alter memory and prejudice

Question 4

War of ghosts study

Answer 4

Culturally unfamiliar=transformation when repeated eg boat was canoe
Lacked rational order=end visual imaging
Conclusion supernatural= perception

Question 5

Patterns of distortion

Answer 5

Confabulation, levelling, rationalisation

Question 6

Confubaltion

Answer 6

Details altered to align with culture and schema
Eg canoe called as boat

Question 7

Levelling

Answer 7

Memories shortened to eliminate unimportant info
Eg places

Question 8

Rationalisation

Answer 8

Alteration of parts deemed irrational
Eg stole money instead of toothpaste

Question 9

Strength

Answer 9

I real life app legal field
J eyewitness unreliable as expectations are recalled rather than reality due to schema
E req further evidence so inac conviction reduced = better for society

Question 10

Weakness

Answer 10

I incorrect as reconstructed and distorted on each recall
J 1st week uni small change in recall after 6 months
E real life situations less susceptible to transform as it’s more tape recorder
H self report research vuln to DC and lacks internal validity