ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the question of what happens when a person sees or hears a sentence, paragraph, or a passage of meaningful material. One possible problem with the S. Fillenbaum and J. D. Bransford–J. J. Franks techniques was that subjects knew that the materials to be remembered were stimuli in a memory experiment. Therefore, they might not have treated the material as they would have treated ordinary, everyday discourse. Bartlett commented on the large amount of construction he observed, and he proposed that memory was more a process of reconstruction than recollection. Contemporary models of memory explicitly embrace the active, constructive nature of recall. Long-term store may contain some of the necessary information especially if substantial time has elapsed between the original perception and its recall. To make up for the gaps in memory, the witness may unconsciously add bits and pieces to his recollection, even if those bits and pieces are not truly remembered.
