Memory/Concept Schemas

Situations and events

Expectations

Generally accurate rules of thumb

Recognition and understanding

Correct Predictions

Top down processing

Sequences of events

Experts

Memory selection

are

include

Operate in

guide

provide

Are about

are

exploit

are

Differ from

Allow predictions of new

are

include

Can be

Violate our

Can lead to

can

Causes us to

Is not

Studied by

uses

Is for

Does not store

Researched by

are

Understood better by

Occur over

stores

has

Make sense within proper framework

Use our own culturally consistent material

Harris et al.

Background knowledge

Inevitable

Misremember

Grammatical Structure

Meaning of message

Two approaches

Clusters of objects

Bottom-up processing

Extended period of time

Cognitive processes

Exact Words

Guided by

requires

includes

uses

Linked with

Can use

Can help in

Also studied

is

Can mislead in

Mental models

More memorable

Earlier material

Relevant schema

Schema activation

Verbatim memory

Recall

Incidental learning

Office schema

Attention

  e.g.

emphasizes

Is shifted to remember

involves

Has consequences on

Says people can control

Developed by

Emphasizes active nature of

Constructive approach

Pragmatic approach

Murphy and Shapiro

Abstractions

Schema inconsistent material

Are an

Interpretation

Bartlett

Categories

Scripts

Generalized knowledge

Heuristics

Errors

Integration

Schema consistent material

Four phases of memory

 Arranged by Gordon Vessels 2005