Perception & Schema
British participants altered culturally unfamiliar words like “dacha” when recalling a story, instead referring it as a boat. This memory distortion is best explained by this cognitive structure.
What is a schema?
A participant expects to see a young woman in an ambiguous image and fails to notice the older woman embedded within it. This perceptual bias most directly reflects the influence of this type of processing.
What is top-down processing?