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