2. The mind can be studied scientifically
Brewer and Treyens (1981)
Procedure:
1. Participants were asked to stay in an office
2. The person who created this experiment told the participants to stay there while the previous participants finish
3. 35 seconds later, participants were taken to another office and were asked to remember all the things they could
4. People used the technique of 'office schema' to remember things
Findings:
1. Almost all participants remembered the desk and the chair
2. Eight out of the thirty remembered the skull
3. Just a few participants remembered the bottle of wine or the coffee pot
4. Only one remembered the picnik basket
5. 9 participants recalled objects that weren't even there such as books (These are new items consistent with the schema)