An eyewitness to a bank robbery recalls seeing a getaway car and mistakenly remembers the driver holding a gun, even though no weapon was present.
Explain how schema theory can account for this reconstructive memory.
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.