Amir is waiting in a café queue when he sees a customer pay by card. The cashier thanks the customer and does not question the payment. The card is later reported stolen, and a police officer asks Amir, “What did the customer say when the cashier challenged him about using someone else’s card?” Amir says the customer claimed the card belonged to his brother.
Explain Amir’s memory using leading questions and reconstructive memory.
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.