Fundamentals
The knowledge of a person or event based on prior experiences.
What is schema?
A tactic in clinical psychology that allows a person to reconfigure their core beliefs and explore new ones.
What is schema therapy?
Name the experimental psychologists that studied scripts and found that participants experienced the primacy effect when recalling life script events.
What is Trafimow and Wyer (1993)?
The specific order of a well constructed sequence of events.
What is script?
When individuals memorize a whole scene and remember more than what they really saw, they are partaking in ________.
What is boundary extension?
Name the experimental psychologists that studied participants' memory selection in schemas; resulting in participants claiming they witnessed items in a room that were not present at the time (filling in the gaps).
What is Brewer & Treyens (1981)?
When a person believes that certain events are categorized to be the highlights of their life.
What is life scripts?
When an individual memorizes a meaning but not specific details or utilize verbatim memory, they are partaking in _______.
What is boundary abstraction?
Name the study that discovered participants' schemas may create false realities and memories; yet are able to recall specific material that is accurate.
What is Neuschatz et al., (2002)?
When people use background knowledge to memorize new information in a schema-consistent way.
What is memory integration?
Individuals are able to recall information a lot better when they form _________.
What is well-integrated memories?
(a.k.a memory integration)
Name the experimental psychologist that discovered many participants were able to specifically recall certain parts of a movie that transgressed their schema expectations.
What is Davidson (2004)?
An individuals ability to recite their memories in a word-for-word manner.
What is verbatim memory?
Name the most common scenario in which verbatim memory is observed.
What is acting in shows, movies, etc.?
Name the experimental psychologists that studied participants ability to use verbatim memory to recall their schematic information observed in sarcastic situations and bland situations. Results indicated that verbatim memory was more accurate in sarcastic situations rather than bland situations.
What is Murphy and Shapiro (1994)?