What Is Memory Construction?

Val went to an elementary school to talk to third graders. He told the class to give him a memory of their first day in kindergarten. Memory construction means trying to remember a memory and turns out imagining something false. Almost like a false memory. Students might have been influenced by this because they tried to remember something and actually constructed something totally different that didn’t happen. Encoding specificity means is being able to retrieve memories faster if the external condition in which the memory was taken is similar to the place you are in now. For example, if one of the student’s first days at school was in a classroom similar to the classroom he’s in third grade, he will have a better memory of what happened
since the classroom reminds him about his first day. Retroactive interference can be influenced by a third grader because he could have learned something in kindergarten and it could have been overlapped by what he learned in third grade. This could happen when the student is trying to remember his first day and it gets overlapped by his first day in third grade. Flashbulb memories are almost like flashbacks. You have a strong and very accurate memory and learning about an event but not the event itself.