IB Psychology 2.2.8 Schema theory
IB Psychology 2.2.8 Schema theory
Students practise describing schema theory using Bartlett’s War of the Ghosts study or evaluating reconstructive memory research like Loftus & Palmer’s car crash experiment.
How this is tested
- describe schema theory by defining schemas as mental frameworks and applying Bartlett’s recall distortions to show
- evaluate Loftus & Palmer’s (1974) study by critiquing its low ecological validity and demand characteristics while