Reconstructive memory
- Created by: lilly557
- Created on: 20-12-12 10:49
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- reconstructive memory
- our memories aren't able to copy the exactly what we experience
- we remember fragments of events
- We fill in gaps of information when recalling
- use knowledge of the world and previous experiences to guess what we should feel in
- Use Schemata to help us fill in gaps
- Schemata are pods of information aboutan event , person or palace
- memory is reconstructive instead of reproduction
- Can be tested scientifically by manipulating the IV and measuring the DV
- theory is reliable
- Evidence of support such as War of ghosts they filled in the gaps of info that made no sense
- Explains how we reconstruct but not how we do it.
- Parpicipants may be responding to demand charateristics in Bartletts study
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