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• who and when made reconstructive memory theory?

  Bartlett in 1932.
• what does the theory suggest?

  that many memories in our ltm are actually reconstructive memories - a mix of real memory and assumptions made by schematical information filling in memory gaps.
• Bartlett's theory - schema definition.

  knowledge made by assumptions and stereotypes from our life experiences.
• Bartlett's theory - how it was tested.

  used war of ghosts story - gave a story both very culturally different for either groups and looked at how they interpreted it - called distortion (changing it).
• Bartlett's theory - the 3 ways within distortion.

  confabulation - changing it due to a cultural influence. levelling - changing the story to make it shorter, usually as a result of skim reading. rationalisation - changing the story to make it make sense to them.
• Bartlett's theory - evaluate for S!

  war of ghosts. brewer and treyens - used an office setting to see the influence of schemas, found they would say expected things but also things what they have personally seen. Bransford and Johnson supports too!
• Bartlett's theory - evaluate for C!

  stevyers and hemmer - argue that depending if the scene is natural or unnatural this may make the error rate higher if unnatural.
• Bartlett's theory - evaluate for U!

  useful for showing that ltm can be inaccurate and why. explains why eye-witness testimony carry risks - bank robbery etc!
• bartlett's theory - evaluate for T!

  war of ghosts is highly unscientific and has no mundane realism - unnatural setting. but theory can be tested by experiments.