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Introduction
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Introduction Memory is an extremely complex system and given the correct circumstances it is susceptible to change by the persons experiences. Psychologists have proposed various explanations for this reconstructive memory. One view is that reconstruction only occurs when a person is unable to relate to what they have seen or heard because it is from a different culture or they have no experience of it. In such an instance the person may remember some parts fully but those they can not, will be changed in order to relate to their own experience. This way they explain what they have seen so that they can relate to it. Bartlett (1932) An alternative view is that reconstruction occurs when a person when a person is unable to remember the events because they occurred some time ago and did not seem important at the time. This would mean they reconstruct the parts that...
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