Bartlett
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- The War of the Ghosts
- One night two young men...
- Participants in the study were 20 British males, so for them the story was filled with unknown names and customs, including the structure and the story itself.
- went down to the river to fish... Now boats came up,
- The participants were then asked to recall the story.
- Most of the participants had difficulty recalling the story and when they were told to recall the story, it was shortened to from approximately 330 words to 180 words on average.
- The participants changed subjects of the story to make it fit into their own culture, like canoes changing into boats and seal hunting changing into fishing.
- In conclusion, Bartlett's study investigated how memory is affected by the culture and the knowledge a person had and how their knowledge and culture affects the way they think and remember things.
- Other stories were used to show that changes weren't exclusive to 'War of the Ghosts', however Bartlett chose unfamiliar material so he was not sure about what would happen with familiar material.
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