Bartlett study summary

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BARTLETT STUDY:

AIM: To see how and why information changes with each reproduction

PROCEDURE:

*'War of the ghosts' story

*the story was a different culture from the participants, this means that the participants wouldn't have a clue of what the story was about

*the 1st participant would read the story twice

*the 1st participant would then wait 20 minutes and read it to the 2nd participant

*each participant (in a group of 10) repeated it to the next person.

FINDINGS:

*very few participants recalled the story accurately

*information such as names and numbers were lost

*a lot of detail was added in which weren't included

*events of the story were made less complex and had a lot of detail had been left out

STRENGTHS:

*other stories were also used, this then means that the changes didn't just apply for this story. So the study had reliability

WEAKNESSES:

*Bartlett couldn't be sure if the changes would happen with familiar information.