| Which memory task is more realistic, remembering a story or a trigrams? | Remembering a story is a more realistic task, so the results can be applied to explain to reconstructive nature of memory in real life. |
| Bartlett didn't control the time intervals between reading and retelling the story, why is this a problem? | It is difficult to make a valid comparisons between participants |
| What type of data did Bartlett collect? | Collected qualitative data |
| Strength of Bartlett study? | Realistic task - Participants had to read and retell a story from memory, the results of this can be applied to explain reconstructive memory in everyday life. |
| A weakness of Bartlett study? | Lack of control - Didn't control the time in between reading and retelling the story. The results of the study is affected by the difference in time intervals, difficult to make accurate comparisons |
| Strength of Bartlett study? | Replicated procedure many times - Tested with multiple different stories and pictures, found same tendencies to change. Demonstrates that the findings of the study are consistent. |
| Weakness of Bartlett study? | Using qualitative data - Bartlett recorded the retelling of stories and then had to look for and interpret the changes made. This meant that Bartlett could have interpreted the stories in light of his own theory. |
| What is active reconstruction? | A memory that is not an exact copy of what you experience, but a reconstruction of the event that has been influenced by your schema. |
| What are schema's? | An organised system of information or knowledge that we have on a particular event or situation. They develop on personal experience and influence how we perceive and remember. |
| What is familiarisation? | Changing unfamiliar details so that they fit our own schema. |
| What is omissions ? | When we leave our detail |
| What is rationalisation? | Adding detail to give more meaning to something that may not have fitted their original schema. |
| What is transformations? | When details are changed |
| Is Bartlett's study more holistic or reductionist? | It is more holistic because he is focusing on a memory as a whole rather than a specific feature of memory like duration. He also looks at a range of factors. |
