PSYC 3030 Chapter : 3 5 2013
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Bartlett (1932): studied memory availability using the telephone game. He told a story to person 1, and that person had to explain it from memory to the second person and so on. The last person tried to tell the original story to bartlett. The classic example he used was war of the ghosts. war of the ghosts was a long story, not a few sentences. This demonstrates that memory is a reconstructive process. You don"t repeat things word for word, you reconstruct it into something that makes sense to you. People tend to shorten & reorganize the story so it makes more sense. We constantly relate new experiences to past beliefs. Inconsistent ideas tend to be forgotten or altered. People tend to be prejudice because they heard something bad about that group or had one bad experience with that group. Carmichael (1930) presented ss with ambiguous drawings and asked people to study them.
