Memory recall and loss: Schema

Memory recall and loss: Schema

1. It´s based on

   • Schema theory claims that memories depend on the culture and
     • For example
       • A person from a country where the police are always armed may imagine they´ve seen all the police in Britain with guns
     • previous experience of each individual
   • People imagine incorrect facts to fill in gaps in memory
     • For example
       • Remembering a young man wearing jeans because its fashionable
         • Not because he really was
   • A person´s recollection of an incident may be affected by racial prejudice
     • by
       • What other people have said about it