... a schema; he saw memory as being reconstructive and was the first to relay such an idea. Bartlett was intrigued in the way that one understands and remembered was based greatly on their expectations. He devised an experiment named 'The war of the ghosts' in which he told English students a North American Indian folk tale. The tale consisted of two men, one of which encountered an experience with five ghosts and went to battle against more ghosts with them. He returned to his village to tell his tale before dying. He found that subjects 'reconstructed' the story rather than remembering it, he established that the reconstruction was adapted to western society (Eysenck and Keane 2000 [1]). Jean Piaget [11] too used a schematic approach when researching memory. Piaget also had experience of false memory. The earliest event he could remember was being kidnapped at the age of two. He ...

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