Loftus and Loftus interviewed 169 people; 75 of them had formal graduate training, while the remaining 94 did not. 84% of psychologists and 69% of non-psychologists chose option 1 - the permanence of memory.
The constructive view of memory is missing from the options:
3. Memory storage is dynamic. Recall of past experiences and learning is reconstructed through the filter of the present retrieval environment. Remembering an event can change the representation of that event in memory.
Loftus & Loftus 1 | Loftus & Loftus 2 | Stop/Yield
Confabulation | PET 1 | PET 2