Reconstructive memory

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Reconstructive Process

Characteristics

Applications

Eye Witness Testimony

Negative Effects

Historical Views

Papers to Cite

'War of the Ghosts', Bartlett (1932)
Loftus & Palmer (1974) – Car accident recall
Dooling & Christiaansen (1977) – story recall
Expectancy effects in reconstructive memory: When the past is just what we expected. Truth in memory. (pp. 62-89)New York, NY, US: Guilford PressLynn, Steven Jay (Ed); McConkey, Kevin M. (Ed), (1998). Xix, 508 pp.
Stereotype biases: A reconstructive analysis of their role in reconstructive memory. Clark, Leslie F.; Woll, Stanley B. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 41(6), Dec 1981, 1064-1072.
When expectancy meets desire: Motivational effects in reconstructive memory. McDonald, Hugh E.; Hirt, Edward R. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 72(1), Jan 1997, 5-23.
Baddeley, A.D., Anderson, M. C., & Eysenck, M.W. (2010). Retrieval. Memory (Reprinted. Ed., pp. 180-181). Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press.
Brignull, H. (2010, March 16). The reconstructive nature of human memory (and what this means for research documentation). User Experience Design, Research and Usability. Retrieved January 27, 2012, from http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2010/03/16/the-reconstructive-nature-of-human-memory-and-what-this-means-for-research-documentation/
Gerrig, R.J., & Zimbardo, P.G. (2007). Psychology & Life (18th Ed.). Boston, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon.
Mcleod, S. (2009, September 15). Simply Psychology. Eye Witness Testimony. Retrieved January 27, 2012, from http://www.simplypsychology.org/eyewitness-testimony.html