Dr. Ken Tangen gives a quick overview of schemas and how they impact our memory.

1. What Is It?

4. simple concepts

5. dog

6. dogFirst applied to all animals
Then add categories:
my dog, cartoon dogs, smelly dogs

7. schemasof

8. Schema
General knowledge of what people are like

9. SchemaGeneral knowledge of your abilities & traits

10. General knowledge of events

11. What to say with someone says “Hello”

12. 4 ways schema’s impact

13. Selection

14. Abstraction

15. Interpretation

16. IntegratioN

17. Evidence
of Schema

18. Read this without context:

19. If the balloons popped the sound wouldn't be
able to carry since everything would be too far
away from the correct floor. A closed window
would also prevent the sound from carrying,
since most buildings tend to be well insulated.
Since the whole operation depends upon a
steady flow of electricity, a break in the middle
of the wire would also cause problems.

20. Of course, the fellow could shout, but the
human voice is not loud enough to carry that
far. An additional problem is that a string could
break on the instrument. Then there could be
no accompaniment to the message. It is clear
that the best situation would involve less
distance. Then there would be fewer potential
problems. With face to face contact, the least
number of things could go wrong.

21. Elements
without
context

22. Look at this &
read story again

23. Context before story helps

24. incidental
schemas

25. Spend
1 minute
here

26. Recall items in the room

27. Recall items in the room
Did you remember books?

28. Recall items in the room
Did you remember books?
We expect books

29. No books

30. Schemas impact what you remember

31. Distorting effects
of schemas

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