Reconstructive Memory Bartlett (1932)

Question 1

Schemas

Answer 1

Knowledge packages
Grouped memories

Question 2

Assimilation

Answer 2

Changing schemas to fit what has been learnt

Question 3

Accommodation

Answer 3

Levelling - removing or down playing details from the memory
Sharpening - involves adding or exaggerating details

Question 4

Confabulation

Answer 4

Filling in gaps in our memory if you are confused

Question 5

Rationalisation

Answer 5

Making things you are trying to recall to fit with schemas
Leads to confabulation

Question 6

War of the ghosts

Answer 6

Rationalisation and confabulation
Came up with explanations for baffling parts
Changed for familiar ideas to fit with schemas

Question 7

Allport and Postman (1947)

Answer 7

Racist schemas
Changed who was the criminal based on racial stereotypes
Accommodation
Levelling - downplaying aggressiveness of white man

Question 8

Loftus and Palmer (1974)
(First paragraph)

Answer 8

Schemas and accommodation sharpening
Car accident
Smashed 40.8mph
Hit 34mph
14% glass smashed for hit group
32 % glass smashed for smashed group
Rationalisation and confabulation

Question 9

Devlin report (1976)

Answer 9

Application
Juries shouldn’t convict off one eye witness

Question 10

Steyvers and Hemmer (2012)

Answer 10

Rationalisation and confabulation
Semantic memory used to reconstruct memory for photograph of normal everyday settings
Bartletts finding weren’t valid as it was too artificial
Was stress and demand characteristics

Question 11

Hodge way dementia village

Answer 11

Application
Choose to live in village themed around schema