Read the following item and answer the question that follows:
Marcus recently attended a traditional courtroom for the first time to complete jury duty. When later describing the room to his family, he accurately recalled seeing the judge's wooden gavel and the jury box. However, he also confidently but incorrectly remembered seeing a large brass scale of justice on the clerk's desk, which was not actually present in the courtroom.
Using your knowledge of cognitive psychology, explain one strength and one weakness of reconstructive memory as an explanation of Marcus's recall of the courtroom.
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