An explanation of how fragments of stored information are reassembled during recall, and the gaps are filled in by our expectations and beliefs to produce a coherent narrative.
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What is a leading question?
One of the forms that post-event information can take. Misleading questions suggest information that is not entirely consistent with what actually happened.
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What are the 2 types of information in the reconstructive memory theory?
Information obtained during the perception of the event and external post-event information.
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What happens over time to the 2 types of information in the reconstructive memory theory?
The 2 sources can get integrated to until we are unable to tell them apart
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What is the name of the study for Reconstructive Memory SAQ?
Loftus & Pickrell
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When was the study Loftus & Pickrell made?
1995
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What was the sample of participants?
3 male
21 females
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What was the aim of the Loftus & Pickrell (1995) study?
To determine if false memories of autobiographical events can be created through the power of suggestion.
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What is another name of the Loftus & Pickrell (1995) study?
Lost at the mall
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What happened before the Loftus & Pickrell (1995) study?
A parent or sibling of the participant was contacted and asked two question.
Could you retell three childhood memories of the participant?
Do you remember a time when the participant was lost in a mall?
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What were the participants asked to do in the questionnaire in the Loftus & Pickrell (1995) study?
They were asked to write about 4 memories.
3 were real and 1 was being lost at the mall.
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What could the participants do if they didn't remember a memory in the Loftus & Pickrell (1995) study?
Write 'I do not remember this'
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What happened after the questionnaire in the Loftus & Pickrell (1995) study?
Participants were interviewed twice over a period of 4 weeks and were asked to recall as much information as they could.
They were then asked to rate their level fo confidence about the memories on a scale of 1-10.
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What are the results of the Loftus & Pickrell (1995) study?
25% of the participants recalled the false memory.
However they ranked the memory as less confident than the other memories and they wrote less about the memory on their questionnaire.
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Card 2
Front
What is a leading question?
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One of the forms that post-event information can take. Misleading questions suggest information that is not entirely consistent with what actually happened.
Card 3
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What are the 2 types of information in the reconstructive memory theory?
Back
Card 4
Front
What happens over time to the 2 types of information in the reconstructive memory theory?
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Card 5
Front
What is the name of the study for Reconstructive Memory SAQ?
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