1. Robinson et al., (2015)
Task: You will now go into my office, one at a time, and collect a textbook, from my desk. You will then return to the classroom and wait until everyone has collected a textbook, before I explain the next task.

2. Robinson et al., (2015)
Task: In groups, you now have 5 minutes to draw my office, as a accurately as possible.
5 Minutes

3. The Results
Task: Let’s see how accurate you were. How many items did you correctly draw, from the picture below.

4. I predict that no one will remember the shampoo or frying pan…

5. Each file in the cabinet is a schema
What is a Schema?
Schemas are like filing cabinets, as they organise and contain information.
Your mind
Each file in the cabinet is a schema
You have millions of these files (schemas) in your mind. For example…

6. Restaurant Schema
Question: What do you think will happen if you go to a posh restaurant? How might you use a schema?
Your schema will tell you…

7. Restaurant Schema
Question: Is your schema for this restaurant the same…

8. What is a Schema?
Schemas are ways we organize and store thoughts and information in our minds which are about ourselves and our world around us.
When we take in information we often link it with information we already know.
Question: WHY do we have schemas?

9. Why do we have Schemas? They help us organise information in our mind.
Allow us to take short cuts (process information quickly) when dealing with huge amounts of information.
However, schemas distort our memory and how we interpret things…

10. ‘Time’ to Pay Attention

11. ‘Time’ to Pay Attention
Task: You have 1 minute to memorise, IN DETAIL, the picture below.

12. ‘Time’ to Draw
Task: You now have 2 minutes to draw, as accurately as possible, the picture of the clock you just saw.
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13. ‘Time’ to Pay Attention
Task: Swap drawings and rate the drawing on a scale of 1-10 (1 – not very accurate, 10 – very acute).

14. ‘Time’ to Pay Attention
Here is the original. How many of you drew the four correctly, as IIII rather than IV?
Question: If you did, why do you think you did this?
This is an example of a ‘schema’…

15. What do you see?