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The research such as Bartlett (1932), Anderson and Pichert (1978), and Brewer and Treyens (1981), not only supported the schema theory, but also added some details beyond what we know about schema theory.
Schema theory has been applied to help us understand how memory works. It also helps us to understand memory distortion. Schema performs some interrelated function such as organizing information in memory and guide human's behaviors.
Bartlett (1932)
It is possible to set up an experimental study to test the theory. For example, by testing a person's memory with a given schema, we can figured out whether it helps or interferes the person’s memory, like the study of Anderson and Pichert (1978).
Anderson (1978)
Brewer (1981)
http://visceralintricacydictionary.blogspot.tw/2012/09/reference-person-fc-bartlett.html#.V-CQIpN96LI
http://www.psychology.ucsd.edu/people/profiles/nanderson.html
http://internal.psychology.illinois.edu/~wbrewer/
Schema cannot be observed measured. Although there is a new technology, fMRI, to observe the brain activity, the person’s processing in brain still cannot be clearly clarified. Cohen (1993) also argued that “the concept of a schema is too vague to be useful”.
Schema theory helps us to predict behavior. Trends in behavior such as leveling, sharpening, and assimilation, are commonly used when people are recalling a story. However, what people will recall exactly is unpredictable.
Schema theory is related and applied to cultures within different groups. The research is not ethnocentric (no apparent bias), despite most of the early research was done in the West.