... us to conceive of objects that are not immediately available to our senses. The most commonly used construct to account for complex knowledge organisation is the schema. Schema theory was originally introduced by Bartlett (1932) and he proposed that what we remember is influenced by what we already know. The schemas work in a top-down direction to enable the interpretation of bottom-up flow information from the world around us. Schemas actively engage with new inputs to decide what will be stored and whether the memory representation of a new experience will be modified. Therefore new schemas can be stored as new schemas or modifications of old schemas which increase the store of general knowledge . Whilst schema theory provides possibly the most comprehensive proposals of mental representation and their need in construction of Long term memory, critics suggest that because memories tend to be transformed toward what is familiar, mistakes and ...

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