Reconstructive memory & schema (AO3) - Bartlett 1932

• What did Loftus et al find with regards to linking the schema and reconstructive memory?

  > Speed estimates of the same video clip of car accidents were different delending on the verb used

  > reconstructuve memory is often jnfluenced by schemas

  > supporting evidence
• How is the theory reductionist?

  > isolates schemas as the main factor. Ignores concepts such as rehearsal
• How is the theory credible?

  > more realistic than a lot of other research

  > more relevant to real life memory - doesn't use an artificial memory test

  > supporting evidence (Bartlett's War of the Ghosts)
• How does this theory loose credibility?

  Doesn't give scientific detail how memory is reconstructed in the brain, other theories provide evidence from brain scans
• How is the theory important to society?

  > shouldn't convict someone based solely off a single eyewitness account.
• How does this theory link to nature vs nurture?

  Nurture - how schemas develop (socialisation)

  Nature - doesn't explain biological evidence but it does create a balance to more nature focused theories of memory