PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7.3: Guided Imagery, Yield Sign
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How memories are organized and constructed much of the way we store memories depend on the tendency to remember the gist of things. The gist of the story give us the big pictures, and is often influenced by schemas: organized cluster of memories that constitute one"s knowledge of events, object, and ideas. Whenever we encounter familiar object, the schemas will be activated and they will affect what we expect, what we pay attention to, and what we remember. Guide both the processing of new information and the retrieval of. Schemas are products of culture and experience, Experiment: handyman w/ schema-consistent project and inconsistent. But after a few day the memories are mistaken and hey are related to the gender schemas. We remember things using constructive memory: a process by which we first recall a generalized schema and then add in more details. Schema can affect our brain in two ways:
