Reconstructive memory

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Psychologist
Bartlett
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Schemas
Ideas and scripts. Give you expectation and rules
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Memory
We only remember fragments of the original event. When we retrieve them we fill in the gaps with schemas
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Mackworth
Schemas free up processing space for inconsistent information
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Supporting Evidence
Chinese whispers
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Supporting Evidence
War of Ghosts
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Supporting Evidence
Alport and Postman - Black and white man
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Supporting evidence
Loftus - Eye witness testimony
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Conflicting evidence
War of the ghosts is unknown so understandable that people would reconstruct
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Reductionist
Describes reconstructing memory doesn't explain
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Usefulness
Real life application - Eye witness testimony and leading questions
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Methadology
Can operationalise the IV and testable results such as counting how many things in a list were correctly recalled
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Outline
Schemas, levelling, sharpening, rationalisation, war of ghosts
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Ideas and scripts. Give you expectation and rules

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Schemas

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We only remember fragments of the original event. When we retrieve them we fill in the gaps with schemas

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Schemas free up processing space for inconsistent information

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Chinese whispers

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