Recollections of things schematic: room schemas revisited.
In 2 experiments, the authors examined the effects of schemas on the subjective experience of remembering. Participants entered a room that was set up to look like a graduate student's office under intentional or incidental learning conditions. They later took a recognition memory test that included making remember-know judgments. In Experiment 1, they were tested during the same session; in Experiment 2 they were tested either during the same session or after a 48-hr delay. Consistent with the authors' predictions, memory for atypical objects was especially likely to be experienced in the remember sense. In addition, false remember judgments rose dramatically after the 48-hr delay, especially for participants in the incidental learning condition. Results are discussed in terms of schema theory, fuzzy-trace theory, and the distinctiveness heuristic.
Lampinen
J M
JM
Department of Psychology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701, USA. lampinen@comp.uark.edu
Copeland
S M
SM
Neuschatz
J S
JS
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D009949:Orientation; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D012931:Social Environment; D014706:Verbal Learning; D014796:Visual Perception