CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bartlett found the participants’ recall distorted the content and style of the original story. The story was shortened, and the phrases, and often words, were changed to be similar to the English language and concepts (e.g., “boat” instead of “canoe”).

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -In Bartlett’s study, he found that both experiments fell under the influence of schema. In repeated reproduction, when people removed or changed the interesting parts of the tale, they were doing so to make it fit into an existing schema they were familiar with.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bartlett devised two methods to study remem-bering: repeated reproduction and serial reproduc-tion. In his most famous work he read a native American folk tale, The War of the Ghosts, to his British participants and then later tested their memories. This bizarre and supernatural story was usually read twice, aloud.