Imagine You Are Driving Home for Semester Break

Essay

Imagine you are driving home for semester break. The roads are busy with many travelers, so you stop frequently to take breaks . Just as you get back on the road again a police officer pulls you over and questions you about a crime that has just been committed. It seems that a convenience store worker at the last exit was robbed and gave the officer a description that matches you. Given what you know about schema theory and the effects of prototypes on our processing and memory for people, what did you tell the officer to have you released? Be sure to describe one experiment and explain how the results support your argument.