Lesson 3.1.1.3.2
3.1.1.3.2 Bartlett's War of the Ghosts study Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 1
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The 20 questions
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What stimulus material did Bartlett use in his famous memory study?
- Modern news report
- Native American folk-story
- Series of photographs
- Nonsense syllable lists
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Why did Bartlett choose an unfamiliar folk story for his participants?
- Caused high anxiety
- Avoided interference
- Prevented retrieval failure
- Lacked ready schemas
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In Bartlett's study, what happened to the length of the story upon recall?
- It doubled
- It became longer
- It became shorter
- It stayed identical
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In Bartlett's research, what is meant by the term repeated reproduction?
- Serial chain recall
- Group retelling chain
- Two participants debating
- One participant recalling
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What process occurs when unfamiliar story details are replaced with culturally familiar ones?
- Cue-dependent forgetting
- Displacement
- Rationalisation
- Serial position effect
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In Bartlett's study, participants filled memory gaps during recall using what?
- Acoustic cues
- Contextual cues
- Repressed thoughts
- Existing cultural schemas
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In reconstructive memory, what usually happens to unfamiliar supernatural elements during recall?
- Digitally encoded
- Repeated endlessly
- Omitted or rationalised
- Recalled perfectly
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How does increasing the time delay before recall affect memory accuracy?
- Prevents interference
- Increases schema distortion
- Prevents memory decay
- Improves exact recall
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Bartlett concluded that human memory is best described as what type of process?
- Exact reproduction
- Passive recording
- Automatic repetition
- Active reconstruction
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Which method involves passing a story through a chain of different participants?
- Paired associate learning
- Repeated reproduction
- Serial reproduction
- Dual coding
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What term did Bartlett use for the attempt to make unfamiliar material meaningful?
- Rationalisation
- Effort after meaning
- Social schema
- Reconstructive memory
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What term describes changing unfamiliar story details into familiar ones to fit expectations?
- Omission
- Confabulation
- Interference
- Rationalisation
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Which method was used in Bartlett's study where one participant passed a story to another?
- Repeated reproduction
- Free recall
- Cued recall
- Serial reproduction
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Bartlett challenged the traditional view that memory acts like a fixed what?
- Dynamic schema
- Photographic copy
- Reconstructive model
- Processing system
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In Bartlett's study, which details were most likely to be changed or forgotten?
- Main events
- Unfamiliar details
- Familiar names
- Short words
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Adapting an unfamiliar story detail to fit your own culture is an example of what?
- Displacement
- Rationalisation
- Interference
- Encoding failure
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What term describes leaving out unfamiliar details when recalling a story?
- Omission
- Rationalisation
- Confabulation
- Interference
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According to Bartlett, memory is actively rebuilt during recall, meaning it is what?
- Reproductive
- Acoustic
- Fixed
- Reconstructive
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In Bartlett's study, story recall changed towards familiar forms due to the influence of what?
- Schemas
- Decay
- Context cues
- Interference
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Where were the participants from in Bartlett's War of the Ghosts study?
- Germany
- Native America
- United States
- Great Britain
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