Psy Cognitive LT6 - Reconstructive Memory - Bartlett, 1932

Psy Cognitive LT6 - Reconstructive Memory - Bartlett, 1932

1. Reconstruction

2. Stereotyping

3. Schema theory

   • Schemas - stored knowledge/mental representations/ideas & scripts about world
     • Give expectations & rules about what we do
   • Use schemas
     • Process information
       • Incorporated when laying down memories

4. Confabulation & rationalisation

   • Confabulation
     • Added
       • Fill gaps
   • Rationalisation
     • Altered
       • Make sense