Reconstructive

Question 1

what year was Bartlett’s reconstructive memory research

Answer 1

1932

Question 2

who came up with the reconstructive memory

Answer 2

Bartlett

Question 3

what are schemas

Answer 3

mental units of knowledge that correspond frequently encountered people, objects or situations

Question 4

what can schemas allow us to make sense of and allow us to do

Answer 4

what we encounter in order that we can predict what is going to happen and what we should do in any given situation

Question 5

what can schemas be determined by

Answer 5

social values
prejudice

Question 6

what are schemas capable of doing and why

Answer 6

distorting unfamiliar or unconsciously unacceptable behaviour
in order to fit in with our existing knowledge or schemas

Question 7

what was bartlett’s famous study called 1932

Answer 7

war of the ghosts

Question 8

explain procedure in war of the ghosts study

Answer 8

North American folk tale
asked to recount detail of the story

Question 9

results of war of ghosts

Answer 9

each personal recalled in own way
passages became shorter
puzzling ideas were rationalised or gotten rid of
details changed to be more familiar or conventional

Question 10

conclusion of war of ghosts

Answer 10

memory is not exact and is distorted by existing schema
reconstruct our memories to conform to our personal beliefs about the world

Question 11

assimilation

Answer 11

changing our schemas to fit what we have learnt

Question 12

accomodation

Answer 12

changing our memories to keep our schemas intact and unchanged

Question 13

how do we accommodate new information

Answer 13

levelling
sharpening

Question 14

levelling

Answer 14

adding or exaggerating details

Question 15

sharpening

Answer 15

removing or downplaying details

Question 16

confabulation

Answer 16

fill gaps in our memory using schemas

Question 17

rationalisation

Answer 17

trying to make sense of something by altering