... causing each of us to selectively attend to different aspects of the same event. (Fruzetti, Toland, Teller & Loftus, 1992). Next, the experience is STORED (Milne & Bull, 1999). The encoded information is placed in memory where it will remain, barring some destructive trauma, until required for the final stage of the process, RETRIEVAL, the recall of the event (Milne & Bull 1999). At any stage in the process, one or more of the components can fail. Memory is constructive, in that we build a meaningful picture of what our senses are receiving, filling in the gaps, an example of which was provided by Trankell (1972). A lawyer travelling in a taxi, had reported seeing the door of a car ahead open, an old man fall out, and lay in the road. It was later found that the old man was a pedestrian who had been knocked down, not a passenger ...

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