COGNITIVE reconstructive memory model Flashcards

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who proposed this theory

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Bartlett

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how do we make new memories

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search through previously stored information by using schemas

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define ‘schemas’

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menatl frameworks that help us to organise information and the relationships between them

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how do we dvelop schemas

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through previous experinces we have had (e.g seeing a dog for the first time and thinking it’s a cat)

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what happens when we recall a memory

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we reconstruct it

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define the term ‘effort after meaning’

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we can store information once we make sense of it and it gains meaning

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define rationalisation

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we may change the memory for it to make sense uncontiously

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define confabulation

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make things up to fill in the gaps unconsiously - this may come from a steryotype we hold

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positive evaluation points

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  • supporting evidence - Loftus et al - car accidents speeds were changed when differenct verbs used - memory changed by schemas
  • psychology in society - Devlin Report (1976) - we should not convict someone with only single eyewitness account
  • supporting evidence - Bartlett’s ‘war of the ghosts’ - each production of the stroy was reconstructed differently
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negative evaluation points

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  • lacks credibility - no scientific detail from the brain - other theories provide evidence e.g. brain scans for episodic and semantic memory
  • lacks credibility - Bartlett evolved the theory off the study - all smaple from Cambridge - cannot be generalised
  • reductionist - isolates schemas as the factor - ignores other concepts such as rehearsal
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