The Schema
What does the schema do?
Organize information.
Who gudies gudied imagery
Therapist or police
Who is more likely to be influenced by suggestive memory?
Children
Memory reconstruction is not influenced by one's mental state and self view
False
How does culture influence memory reconstruction?
Culture shapes what information people notice, value and remember by influencing attention, beliefs and social norms.
What are object schemas?
Object schemas help us understand how what we do every day works.
When does imagination inflation occur
Occurs when you are imagining events that did not happen
What is the Mandela effect?
When people collectively rember something incorrectly
The hippocampus is an area in our brain that is located inside the temporal lobe
True
How do cultural storytelling traditions affect memory?
Storytelling shapes how memories are organized.
What do undeveloped schemas look like in children? Name 2 examples
They see themselves as apart of their caregiver rather than being their own person.
Feel very anxious when they are not with their caregiver.
Struggle with making friends and building connections with people.
Tend to copy others to fit in rather than showing their own personality.
Struggle focusing.
What is guided imagery
A technique used to influence another individual in recalling a memory
What kind of questioning can distort a child's memory?
All memories are 100% reliable
False
Why isn't memory considered a perfect recording?
Because memory is reconstructed each time it's recalled. This means it can be influenced by cultural values.
List 3 of the 5 types of schemas.
Object schema, stereotypes schema, prototypes schema, scripts schema, role schema.
Name 3 of the 6 key factors in construction of false memories
Inaccurate perception, Inference, Emotions, Misinformation, Misattribution, Fuzzy tracing
What is eyewitness testimony?
An account given by someone who saw an event
Henry Molaison's surgery made him unable to form new long-term memories.
True
How does culture shape our interpretation of the past?
Culture affects what we remember, how we understand and give meaning to those memories.