Schema Theory

_____________ ____________ are mental representations that organize our knowledge, beliefs and expectations.

• Flashbulb memories

• Cognitive schemas

• Everyday memories

• Memory confabulation

Researchers ______________ and ____________ demonstrated that schemas not only influence the memory process of encoding (transferring info to LTM), but also have an influence at the stage of retrieval.

• Bransford and Johnson

• Brewer and Treyens

• Anderson and Pichert

• French and Richards

_________ schemas are mental representations about various groups of people.

• Self

• Social

• Scripts

_________ are schemas about sequences of events.

• Scripts

• Self

• Social

________ schemas are mental representations about ourselves.

• Scripts

• Social

• Self

One research study that illustrates the effect of social schemas was done by ____________ and ___________.

• Bransford and Johnson

• Darley and Gross

• Brewer and Treyens

• Anderson and Pichert

_______________ ______ processing occurs when the cognitive process is sensory driven.

• Top-down

• Bottom-up

• Pattern recognition

• Self-schema

_________ _________ processing occurs when your prior knowledge or expectations (schemas) act as a lens or filter for the info that you receive and process.

• Pattern recognition

• Top-down

• Bottom-up

• Script schema