Recollections of things schematic: The influence of scripts on recollective experience

Participants listened to a story based on several underlying scripts. Recog nition memory was tested the same day and 24 hours later. If participants b elieved an action was stated they made remember/know judgements. For rememb er judgements subjects also indicated the types of details they were recoll ecting. There were more hits and more conscious recollections for atypical actions than for typical actions and memories of atypical actions were also more likely to include details about thoughts and emotions. About half of the false memories were experienced as conscious recollections and the cont ent of these conscious recollections were similar for true and false memori es. These results demonstrate that scripts play an important role in influe ncing the subjective experience of memory. Copyright (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.