Schema+Theory

Evaluate schema theory with reference to research studies.

** Schema Theory ** Humans actively process information


 * === Schema theory is theoretical framework which humans use to categorize and memorize information. ===
 * === Basically, schema processing is categorizing information in one's memory storage to make it easier to recall. ===
 * === Studies: ===
 * **Bartlett: War of Ghosts study (asking participants to recall a story about ghosts, indicating that schema processing was used to categorize and memorize information)**
 * **Anderson and Pitchert: House robbers and buyers experiment (investigating the schema processing involved in listening to a story from a house buyer's point of you vs a robber's point of view)**