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memory
You are a slave to your previous assumptions.
Schema-based processing leads to faster information integration at the cost of detail.
When we encounter a new situation, we use a pre-existing schema to organize expectations. If we encounter information that fits the schema, we process it rapidly and remember the core concept. If we encounter contradictory data, we often unconsciously warp it to fit our schema or ignore it entirely.
Your world is built from the templates you already hold.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Bartlett, 1932
- What the check found
- Bartlett's 1932 study is the foundational text for schema-based memory reconstruction. While the speed-accuracy tradeoff is often discussed in modern cognition, it is a valid synthesis of Bartlett's findings on detail loss.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.