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Schema Theory - Coggle Diagram
Schema Theory
Strengths
Testable
War of the Ghosts (Bartlett, 1932)
Biological evidence
Mahon et al (2009)
Can be applied
Memory
Abnormal psych
Human relationships
Can be applied across different cultures and different environments
Can be used to predict behaviour
What is it
A mental representation of knowledge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9uOgYneh8g
Helps organize our knowledge
assist
recall
guide
help make sense
Steps
Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Limitations
Vague
Unclear how they are acquired
Rely on the assumption that humans are active processors of information
Relies too much on memory
Memory tasks are not that accurate
Could it be applied to other mental processes?
Bartlett
Bartlett hypothesized that people had schemata.
Minsky
He saw frame knowledge as reacting with fresh specific information received from the outside world.