After helping set up a community art exhibition, Rowan later describes a blue sign as green and recalls a wooden lectern in the room. The sign was blue, and there was no lectern.
Explain which recollection illustrates distortion and which illustrates confabulation. Then explain what may happen to Rowan’s account if it is recalled again.
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.