PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Velten, Procedural Knowledge, Echoic Memory
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Memory schemas are selected, abstracted, interpreted, and integrated. Person schema: schemas about people contain general information and beliefs that are consistent with the traits of another person. We use them to help us understand and predict other people"s behaviours. Self schema: general information that we believe about ourselves. Person schemas and self schemas can interact in very complex ways; for example, we can try to predict from person schemas what other people think of us, which might in turn influence our own self schemas. Scripts are a type of procedural knowledge that are abstracted from common events; they help us act appropriately depending on the situations we are in. There are no specific memories associated with scripts; rather, they are generic knowledge about what usually happens in various situations. We have, for instance, expectations on what will happen in clubs, restaurants, the street, class, etc.