Bartletts war of the ghost study

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  Bartlett's war of the ghosts study is a classic experiment conducted by sir Frederic Bartlett in 1932 that investigated the role of schema in memory recall.
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  AIM:

  the study aimed to explore how cultural schemas can influence the way that people remember a story.
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  PROCEDURE/METHOD:

  in the experiment, Bartlett presented participants with a native American legend called "the war of the ghosts". The story was unfamiliar to the participants and contained many unfamiliar elements.

  • Bartlett then asked the participants to recall the story to the next individual after various time intervals.

  Bartlett deliberately selected a story that was from a different culture, to ensure there was no familiarity bias in the results.
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  RESULTS:

  the results of the study showed that as time went on, participants' recollections of the story became increasingly distorted. specifically, participants tended to change the story in a way that made it more consistent with their own cultural schemas and expectations.

  for example, participants often replaced unfamiliar words and phrases with more familiar ones, and omitted or altered details that did not fit with their existing knowledge and beliefs.
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  CONCLUSIONS:

  • Bartlett's study demonstrated the importance of schema in memory recall, and provided evidence for the idea that memory is a constructive process that is influenced by our pre-existing knowledge, beliefs, and cultural backgrounds.

  • The study has been widely cited in the field of Cognitive psychology and has helped to shape our understanding of the role of schema in memory construction yappa yappa yappa...