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Schema Theory

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

_____________ ____________ are mental representations that organize our knowledge, beliefs and expectations.

a)

Flashbulb memories

b)

Cognitive schemas

c)

Everyday memories

d)

Memory confabulation

2.

Researchers ______________ and ____________ demonstrated that schemas not only influence the memory process of encoding (transferring info to LTM), but also have an influence at the stage of retrieval.

a)

Bransford and Johnson

b)

Brewer and Treyens

c)

Anderson and Pichert

d)

French and Richards

3.

_________ schemas are mental representations about various groups of people.

a)

Self

b)

Social

c)

Scripts

4.

_________ are schemas about sequences of events.

a)

Scripts

b)

Self

c)

Social

5.

________ schemas are mental representations about ourselves.

a)

Scripts

b)

Social

c)

Self

6.

One research study that illustrates the effect of social schemas was done by ____________ and ___________.

a)

Bransford and Johnson

b)

Darley and Gross

c)

Brewer and Treyens

d)

Anderson and Pichert

7.

_______________ ______ processing occurs when the cognitive process is sensory driven.

a)

Top-down

b)

Bottom-up

c)

Pattern recognition

d)

Self-schema

8.

_________ _________ processing occurs when your prior knowledge or expectations (schemas) act as a lens or filter for the info that you receive and process.

a)

Pattern recognition

b)

Top-down

c)

Bottom-up

d)

Script schema