PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Forgetting Curve, Retrograde Amnesia, Flashbulb Memory
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Bartlett invented the concept of schema: schema (bartlett): an active mass of organized pass reaction that provides a setting that guides our behaviour. A standard that can be adjusted to fit changing circumstances. Bartlett often used the method of repeated reproduction (one participant (like a tennis stroke changes between hits) is given multiple opportunities to recall a story over time) and the method of serial reproduction (broken telephone game) In the method of serial reproduction, upon long and complex stories, people used rationalization (the attempt to make memory as coherent and sensible as possible) to reproduce. Professor a. c. aitken was a brilliant musician and mathematician with an amazing memory. Showed how interests and schemas help increase memorization. If we imagine an event in a particularly vivid way, we may later have the illusion that it actually happened. Johnson: source monitoring framework the theory that some errors of memory are caused by mistaken identification of the memory"s source.
