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      • The study recruited 20 English college students. The study asked participants to read a Native American folk tale called the 'War of the Ghosts' because it was unlikely that participants were familiar with or had existing knowledge of the story.
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  2. May 31, 2022 · Bartlett asked 20 participants (who were students) to read the ‘War of the Ghosts’ story, as he knew it would be unfamiliar to them. It was a story based on Native American culture that would be strange to people from Western cultures because it contained supernatural concepts and its structure was quite unusual.

  3. The study asked participants to read a Native American folk tale called the 'War of the Ghosts' because it was unlikely that participants were familiar with or had existing knowledge of the story. The study utilised many techniques to measure the reconstructive nature of memory.

  4. Revision notes on Bartlett's War of the Ghosts Study for the AQA GCSE Psychology syllabus, written by the Psychology experts at Save My Exams.

  5. Bartlett showed 20 students a Native American ghost story (The War of the Ghosts) which had unusual features. He asked them to read it then recall it on several occasions after a few hours, days, weeks or even years – a technique called serial reproduction (and a Repeated Measures design).

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  6. Bartlett used a technique called serial reproductions. Each participant was asked to read War of the Ghosts. After 15 minutes they were asked to reproduce it. He showed this new version to another person and asked them to recall it after a short time and repeated this with further participants.

  7. Bartlett told participants a Native American legend called The War of the Ghosts. The participants in the study were British; for them the story was filled with unknown names and concepts, and the manner in which the story was developed was also foreign to them.

  8. It mirrors how we use our memory in real life. Bartlett's method of asking participants to retell a story is a more meaningful way of testing memory.