Evaluation of Reconstructive Memory
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- Created on: 15-10-14 14:15
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- Evaluation of Reconstructive Memory
- Allport and Postman (1947)
- Razor
- Description of Race Change
- Supporting
- Stereotype
- Passed on through serial reproduction
- Brewer and Treyens (1981)
- 30 Participants
- Recall objects in an office
- 35 seconds each
- Recalled expected office items (typewriter)
- Supporting
- 30 Participants
- Carli (1999)
- 135 Undergraduates
- Read a story (two stories) both beginning the same
- One story ending in ****
- Ptp said story began more violently than it did
- Ptp distorted the story
- Stereotype of ****
- Ptp distorted the story
- Ptp said story began more violently than it did
- One Story ending abruptly in an argument
- One story ending in ****
- Supporting
- Strength
- Theory explains why memory is inaccurate
- Weaknesses
- Theory only focuses on retrieval process
- Not explain how information is taken in
- Unusual things are remembered most
- Theory doesn't explain this
- Theory only focuses on retrieval process
- Bartlett (1932)
- Supporting
- Ptp reconstructed the story based on their expectations
- Errors=
- Replacing word canoe with boat
- Shorten the story
- Changed hunting seals to fishing
- Cultural norms, we don't hunt seals
- Allport and Postman (1947)
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