Host: The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology
Human memory is not a mere record of experienced event, but is affected by the knowledge for the event, that is, the schema. When we experience an action which is inconsistent with particular place, we can feel bizarreness, and can recollect such emotion afterwards. This is the effect of "consistency with place-schema." In the present study, in addition to place-schema, we examined the effect of the consistency of object-schema; whether the action can use left objects. We predicted that the effect of place-schema would be bigger than that of object-schema. In order to verify our prediction, we presented four kinds of actions; place-consistent and object-consistent, place-consistent and object-inconsistent, place-inconsistent and object-consistent, and place-inconsistent and object-inconsistent. Then we conducted memory tests. As a result, place-inconsistency provoked more recollections of felt emotion than object-inconsistency. Our prediction was supported.
