Describe the psychology that is being investigated in the study by Laney et al. (false memory).

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (Oct/Nov 2019). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. [1] People may have memories for events, etc. that never actually happened;
2. [1] People can reconstruct memories of events that have real and false memories in them;
3. [1] These could alter our perception of childhood memories (or any memory);
4. [1] People can fill in the gaps using false information;
5. [1] The information can be post-event that gets embedded in the actual memory;
6. [1] They can be either negative (a crime) or positive (liking asparagus);