SCHEMAS - Knowledge built up through experience of different situations
Cohen (1993) - 5 ways schemas reconstruct memory
1. We ignore aspects that dont fit into schemas
2. We store central features of an event, not exact
3. We make sense of a situation by filling in missing information (assuming)
4. We distort memory for events we fit in to prior
5. We use schemas to try and correctly guess if we cant recall
Brewer and Treyens (1981) - Skull in the office - visual memory. 30 people, one by one, 61 objects, normal and not. Better at recalling office items. And false.
Bransford and Johnson (1972) - The role of context - we use prior knowledge to make sense of a situation (IN SUPPORT OF SCHEMAS)
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