Marcella goes to the birthday party of one of her second-grade classmates, which is being held at a fire station. The kids all get to hold the hose and aim it at a fake house to pretend they are fighting a fire. Later, she tells her father, "Daddy, the house was really on fire, and smoke was coming out of it and everything!" The fact that Marcella remembers smoke even though there was none is because of

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Constructive memory refers to the process by which memories are influenced by the meaning we give to events, leading to the creation of false memories or altered recollections. Marcella's memory of smoke, which wasn't present, is an example of this phenomenon.

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