How would a constructive approach to memory explain the differences in two people’s reported memories for the same shared event?

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Xaibi Aslam · Accepted Answer

People have different past experiences, values and goals and so will experience different events, even when the external event in the same.

Xaibi Aslam · Answer

People have different memory capabilities and so make different errors.

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People have different verbal abilities and vocabularies and so would report their memory differently, even though their actual memory were the same.

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Peoples have different motivations and so will not all equally hard; they will report exactly what occurred, but they will leave different parts out.

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