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Bransford and Johnson (1972)

Bartlett refers to efforts after meaning, i.e. trying to make the past more logical, more coherent, and generally more ‘sensible’, which involves making inferences or deductions about what could or should have happened. The way we do this relies on our past experience and cultural understandings - in other words, our schema influence our understanding and recall of an event. However, Bransford and Johnson (1972)...

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