How would a constructive approach to memory explain the differences in two people's reported memories for the same shared event?
Correct answer: D. People have different past experiences, values and goals and so will experience different events, even when the external event in the same.Psychology
- A. People have different memory capabilities and so make different errors.
- B. People have different verbal abilities and vocabularies and so would report their memory differently, even though their actual memory were the same.
- C. Peoples have different motivations and so will not all equally hard; they will report exactly what occurred, but they will leave different parts out.
- D. People have different past experiences, values and goals and so will experience different events, even when the external event in the same.Psychology
Explanation
Constructive memory is rebuilt using prior experiences, values, goals, and expectations, so two people may interpret and later reconstruct the same event differently. Their differences are not merely differences in verbal skill or memory capacity.
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