Maya and Julian both watched the exact same silent security recording of an interaction between two people in a university library archives room.
Maya, an English literature graduate, described the scene as an exciting discovery where a researcher found a rare first-edition manuscript and warmly shook their colleague's hand in mutual celebration.
Julian, a security studies student, described the scene as a security breach where an unauthorised visitor was trying to smuggle out a restricted historical document and a staff member seized their arm to intercept them.
Using your knowledge of reconstructive memory, explain why Maya and Julian described the recording so differently.
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.