Psychology 2015A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Eyewitness Testimony, Auditory Cortex, Computer Data Storage

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2015A/B
• Professor: Patrick Brown

Document Summary

Schema what we expect to find as we explore, but also something that helps us organize the information we see. Mystic writing pad model a model of memory based on a toy writing tablet that retains fragments of old messages even after they have been erased. In time, these fragments accumulate and begin to overlap so they become increasingly hard to read. These fragments are like the after effects of perception. Reappearance hypothesis the same memory can reappear unchanged, again and again, like watching a video of the past. If we do not have this we have fragments, known as schemas. Most schema theories discuss memory in terms of four processes: selection, abstraction. Schema selects information of interest at the time then we convert the information into an abstract form (get the gist), and interpret the information in terms of other information in our memory. We then integrate the information in a way that it fits our schema.