Brian Cutler Defines Reconstructive Memory

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Reconstructive Memory

A Bayesian Account of Reconstructive Memory

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Steyvers ◽  
Pernille Hemmer
Keyword(s):  
Reconstructive Memory

How Do I Remember Thee? The Role of Encoding Set and Delay in Reconstructive Memory Processes

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 379-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward R. Hirt ◽  
Hugh E. McDonald ◽  
Grant A. Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Memory Processes ◽  
Reconstructive Memory

Reconstructive Memory Bias in Recall of Neuropsychological Symptomatology

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 328-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin C. Hilsabeck ◽  
Wm. Drew Gouvier ◽  
John F. Bolter
Keyword(s):  
Memory Bias ◽  
Reconstructive Memory

scholarly journals Bartlett's schema theory: The unreplicated “portrait d'homme” series from 1932

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (11) ◽  
pp. 2258-2270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claus-Christian Carbon ◽  
Sabine Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Memory Retrieval ◽  
General Procedure ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Schema Theory ◽  
Previous Knowledge ◽  
Semantic Cues ◽  
Reconstructive Memory ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Face ◽  
Ambiguous Stimuli

In 1932, Frederic Bartlett laid the foundation for the later schema theory. His key assumption of previous knowledge affecting the processing of new stimuli was illustrated in the famous “portrait d'homme” series. Sequenced reproductions of ambiguous stimuli showed progressive object-likeness. As Bartlett pointed out, activation of specific schemata, for instance “the face schema”, biases memory retrieval towards such schemata. In five experiments (Experiment 1, n = 53; Experiment 2, n = 177; Experiment 3, n = 36; Experiment 4, n = 6; Experiment 5, n = 2), we tested several factors potentially influencing retrieval biases—for example, by varying the general procedure of reproduction (repeated vs. serial) and by omitting versus providing visual or semantic cues for activating face schemata. Participants inspected face-like stimuli with the caption “portrait of the human” and reproduced them repeatedly under specific conditions. None of the experiments revealed a systematic tendency towards Bartlett's described case, even when the participants were explicitly instructed to draw “a face” like the previously inspected one. In one of the “serial reproduction” experiments, we even obtained contrary effects with decreasing face-likeness over the reproduction generations. A close analysis of the original findings raises questions about the replicability of Bartlett's findings, qualifying the “portrait d'homme” series more or less as an illustrative example of the main idea of reconstructive memory.

scholarly journals Collective memory as tool for intergroup conflict: The case of 9/11 commemoration

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 630-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nader H. Hakim ◽  
Glenn Adams
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Reconstructive Memory ◽  
Level Versus ◽  
Cultural Tools

We apply a cultural psychology approach to collective memory of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In particular, we considered whether practices associated with commemoration of the 9/11 terrorist attacks would promote vigilance (prospective affordance hypothesis) and misattribution of responsibility for the original 9/11 attacks (reconstructive memory hypothesis) in an ostensibly unrelated context of intergroup conflict during September 2015. In Study 1, vigilance toward Iran and misattribution of responsibility for the 9/11 attacks to Iranian sources was greater among participants whom we asked about engagement with 9/11 commemoration than among participants whom we asked about engagement with Labor Day observations. Results of Study 2 suggested that patterns of greater vigilance and misattribution as a function of instructions to recall engagement with 9/11 commemoration were more specifically true only of participants who reported actual engagement with hegemonic commemoration practices. From a cultural psychological perspective, 9/11 commemoration is a case of collective memory not merely because it implicates collective-level (versus personal) identities, but instead because it emphasizes mediation of motivation and action via engagement with commemoration practices and other cultural tools.

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