A company produces an advert inviting adults to picture themselves winning a race at their primary school sports day. After seeing it, one adult says the race now feels familiar, although they had no memory of it before seeing the advert.
Explain what Braun, Ellis and Loftus's (2002) findings would lead a researcher to predict about the adult's confidence that the race happened, and what this would mean when interpreting the adult's account.
84 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 5.2 Theories/Explanations, covering 5.2.1 Multi-store Model structure, 5.2.2 Differences between memory stores; criticisms, 5.2.3 Multi-store Model research study: Wilson et al. (2008), 5.2.4 Reconstructive memory: schemas, experience and expectation, 5.2.5 Reconstructive memory: confabulation and leading questions; criticisms, and 5.2.6 Reconstructive Memory research study: Braun, Ellis and Loftus (2002). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.