- (A) Loftus’s work shows that memory is reconstructed; that is, a memory is not like an exact
replica of what happened but rather is built each time a person thinks about it and is therefore
affected by all sorts of extraneous information. The serial position effect refers to the tendency to
remember the first and last items in a list better than the ones in the middle. While there is a
predictable rate at which information is lost from short-term memory, it is not relevant to this
question. Similarly, while the cerebellum plays a role in procedural memory, that fact is not the
focus of this question. Finally, hindsight bias, the tendency to think you knew an answer all along
after hearing it, does not relate directly to this question.
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