Reconstructive Memory - Evaluation
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- Reconstructive Memory - Evaluation
- War of the Ghosts
- words became replaced and story got shorter
- 'canoe' became 'boat'
- supports because cultural shemas affect the way we remember things - addapt the story to their culture
- 'canoe' became 'boat'
- words became replaced and story got shorter
- Allport and Postman (1947)
- Razor - descriptions changed so that the black man was holding the razor
- Stereotype shemas
- Razor - descriptions changed so that the black man was holding the razor
- Brewer and Treyens (1981)
- recalled objects they expected to see in a office (even if it wasn't there)
- Office she,as
- recalled objects they expected to see in a office (even if it wasn't there)
- Lab based
- lacks ecological validity
- Does not reflect a real life situation
- reliable - highly controlled
- lacks ecological validity
- Application
- understanding eye-witness testimony
- What we recalll may be different to what we saw because shemas affect our memory
- understanding eye-witness testimony
- Carli
- stereotyped
- story ending with **** - the ****** became threatening before the event
- ****** shemas are that they are threatenting
- story ending with **** - the ****** became threatening before the event
- stereotyped
- War of the Ghosts
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