During a power cut at a busy museum, Imran glimpses a visitor taking a small sculpture. He sees the visitor for only three seconds, through a partly closed doorway. He later says confidently that the visitor wore a black coat, although the coat was grey.
Explain how the information in the scenario can be used to criticise the theory of reconstructive memory as reductionist.
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.