Remembering what we imagine: the role of event schemas in shaping how imagined autobiographical events are recalled

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for experimental measures across the four event types (expected or unexpected events imagined in high and low familiar contexts)

Expected Unexpected
High Low High Low
Internal hits
 Mean (SD) 0.62 (0.15) 0.59 (0.13) 0.59 (0.12) 0.64 (0.14)
 Median (min, max) 0.61 (0.16, 1.00) 0.58 (0.28, 0.91) 0.58 (0.33, 0.92) 0.62 (0.26, 1.00)
External hits
 Mean (SD) 0.49 (0.39) 0.40 (0.36) 0.43 (0.36) 0.50 (0.37)
 Median (min, max) 0.54 (0, 1.00) 0.41 (0, 1.00) 0.50 (0, 1.00) 0.50 (0, 1.00)
Internal detail additions
 Mean (SD) 5.62 (3.55) 5.79 (3.12) 5.85 (3.75) 4.59 (3.35)
 Median (min, max) 5.00 (0, 16.0) 6.00 (0, 15.0) 5.00 (0, 17.0) 4.00 (0, 17.0)
External detail additions
 Mean (SD) 0.87 (1.31) 1.09 (1.55) 0.84 (1.37) 0.70 (1.11)
 Median (min, max) 0 (0, 7.00) 1.00 (0, 7.00) 0 (0, 7.00) 0 (0, 5.00)

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