Studies( Barlett War Of The Ghost )

Question 1

Serial reproduction

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A technique where participants retell something to another participant to form a chain; this is how folk stories are passed down through cultures

Question 2

Repeated reproduction

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A technique where participants are asked to recall something again and again

Question 3

Background to the study

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-the war of the ghosts
-Chose the story as it would be unfamiliar as it is native American story
- hoped the unfamiliarity of the story would shed light on reconstructive nature of memory because his participants would be more likely to draw on their schemas to recall it

Question 4

Aims

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Test reconstructive memory using an unfamiliar story
Looking at whether or not personal schemas influence what is remembered from the story

Question 5

Procedure

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• Participants asked to read the war of the ghosts twice and asked to recall it
• used both serial reproduction and repeated reproduction to test the recall of the story

Question 6

Serial reproduction(procedure)

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• serial reproduction( used to read the story and then retell it to another participant 15 to 30 minutes later. Second participant then told the story to a third participant and so on)

Question 7

Repeated reproduction(procedure)

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• Same participant asked to write out the story after 15 minutes
• asked to recall story several minutes, hours, days,months and years later

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Results

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• barlett used qualified analysis to look for and interpret changes to stories that were recalled
• repeated reproductions tended to fellow a similar form, which means that the theme er outline of the story tended to remain in later reproductions
• both types of recall participants tried to make sense of the story by giving it meaning
• makes connections or giving reasons to events
• known as rationalisation
• participants tended to leave out unfamiliar or unpleasant parts of story
• details became familiarised or simplified

Question 9

Strength of study

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• Remembering story more naturalistic as a test of everyday memory
• same findings across other studies ( reliable)
• studies use of qualitative data

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Weaknesses

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• Not familiar story(story was not a everyday task)
• Barretts study is not as scientific as it could have been ( doesn’t follow standaralised procedure)

Question 11

Sum it up

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• Barlett research paved the way for modern day thinking bout reconstructive nature of memory
• procedure were not scientific his were reflected a qualitative nature that helps us to understandeveryday human nature