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.
177 exam-style questions on Edexcel A Level Psychology Content, covering Working memory model, Multi-store model of memory, Episodic and semantic long-term memory, Reconstructive memory and schema theory, Individual differences in memory, and Developmental psychology in memory. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.