The study by Laney et al. is about false memories.

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (Feb/Mar 2018). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. [1 mark for each correct point made. A maximum of one mark can be gained from an example.] People's memories of events in their own lives can be incorrect/not real False details about real events and entirely false events can be added to a person's memory storage system/mixed together From all of the stored information, people can reconstruct 'memories' for events/imagined events Doing things like 'filling in the gaps' and using false information gets embedded in actual information As a result of this people form 'new' memories that contain information that is not correct.
2. [2 marks - full answer with a meaningful comparison on conditions to pre- and post-manipulation 1 mark - brief answer/implicit answer] e.g. For the Food Preferences Questionnaires, Believers reported liking asparagus significantly more that the control group (2 marks) For the 'Love' group their scores on the FHI increased by 2.6 points/rated asparagus higher on FHI at follow-up (2 marks) The 'Love' group would pay more for the asparagus (1 mark)