Ari attends a meeting in a community hall and only glances briefly at the wall behind the chair. Later, he says there was a noticeboard on that wall, although a photograph taken before the meeting shows the wall was bare. Ari is sure he is right and is not trying to mislead anyone.
Give one feature of a schema that could explain why Ari recalled a noticeboard.
Identify the term used in reconstructive memory for Ari's recall of a noticeboard that was never there.
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.