COGS 101B Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Eyewitness Testimony, Eyewitness Memory, Yield Sign
29 Mar 2016
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Which of the following best describes the relationship between schemas and scripts: o o o o. Schemas provide general episodic information, while scripts provide the semantic information. Schemas are often embedded in scripts, providing the casual link between events. Schemas are less structured than scripts and provide general information about a type of event. When recalling an event, we sometimes add elements that were not originally present o o o. The more complex the original event (i. e. the more it taxed short- term or working memory during encoding), the greater the diiculty in recalling exact information. If you later use a cue to probe part of a memory, you may rely on default values when you can"t remember precise detail. This use of what was likely, given the schemas, is reconstructive memory. The schema you use to recall an event may act as a set of cues (i. e. the slots to be illed) for your memory.
