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aim
to see what will be remembered of the war of the ghost stories and the influence of schemas on memory
procedure
each participant used repeated reproduction to test recall ( recalling information over different time intervals)over minutes, hours days or more
bartlett found that the story recall was shortened because of omissions, changing words like “canoe to boat”
results
memory is reconstructed each time it is recalled by distortion, rationalisation, transformation and simplifications
what is schema theory
a schema is a parcel of knowledge used to fill in gaps in our memory
schemas are also used in recognising objects and events.
evaluation weakness
subjective, much of this was based off his own research
it cant be generalised to daily life lacks mundane realism
evaluation strength
application to eyewitnesses, they might forget information of a crime scene and fill in gaps with their schemas
this can affect the accuracy of their statements it does show the use of schemas and actively reconstructive memory
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