Schema and dual process model

A mental structure of preconceived ideas, framework representing some aspect of the world or a system of organizing and perceiving new information.

• Script

• Schema

• Central executive

Schemas are based on future experience

• True

• False

Schema about events in time

Who used the concept of "Schema" for the first time?

• Vigotsky

• Piaget

• Barlett

The process when an existing schema is replaced

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

Psychologists argue that memory is reconstructive that means that we have full memories in our brain, and not just "data points".

• True

• False

When did Barlett conduct his experiment

• 1933

• 1987

• 1932

• 1974

What were the most important findings in Barlett's study

• Translation

• Omissions

• Accommodation

Barlett's experiment was well controlled

• True

• False

In Brewer's and Treyens (1981) study the participants were asked to wait in an office for 35 seconds and then called to another room where they were asked to recall to recall as many items as they could.

• False

• True