... meaning of the story, but usually not the exact sentences that we are told but the story is remembered by actively constructing a meaningful representation of the story in our memory. This theory can be tested in the levels of culture and understanding of the cultures surroundings. The study tries to find out if the schema theory works in relation to cultures and understanding the surroundings and places related to the cultures. The importance of schema has been shown in a number of studies. Participants where given text about washing clothes to read and their reading time for each sentence in each text was recorded. Half the texts were preceded by a title that activated a relevant schema, whereas the other halves were presented without relevant schemas. Overall, reading time per sentence was substantially longer when reading without a schema than with one. The amount of extra time needed to read ...

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