Author(s)

XinYi Huang

Affiliation(s)

Guangdong Country Garden School, Foshan 528300, Guangdong, China.

Corresponding Author

XinYi Huang

ABSTRACT

Schema attracts increasing highlights among scholars due to its impacts on memories in adolescents. This study aims to examine the accuracy of short-term memory of Chinese adolescents and whether students receiving an activation of the schema and students without activation have similar performance in recalling a story. With a series of objective test items in the psychological experiment of schema activation, it is found that visual aids display strongly positive influence on the recall although its effectiveness is not totally acceptable. This research contributes to the improvement of memorization methods and accuracy of adolescents.

KEYWORDS

Schema; Adolescent; Recall of short-term memory; Experimental psychology

CITE THIS PAPER

XinYi Huang. The influence of schema activation in recall of memories in adolescents: an experimental psychological investigation. Social Science and Management. 2024, 1(2): 31-35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61784/ssm3018.

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