An eyewitness to a bank robbery is asked by police to describe the event. The eyewitness recalls seeing the perpetrator holding a black gun, but security footage later reveals the perpetrator was actually holding a black metal wrench.
Explain how schema theory and reconstructive memory can account for this error in the eyewitness's recall.
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