Evaluation

Question 1

Supporting Evidence

Answer 1

-Bartlett’s war of the ghosts shows that what we remembers is governed by schemas. Supports Reconstructive memory theory, as it proves that memory is not a completely accurate record of what happened

Question 2

Conflicting Evidence

Answer 2

-Research by Yuille and Cutshall. They asked participants about a real life shooting to do a study about eyewitness testimony = they found that 5 months later the memory of participants was nearly entirely accurate

-Bartletts war of the ghosts lacked generalisability and ecological validity

Question 3

Other exaplantions

Answer 3

-Flash bulb memory = describes the vivid and detailed memory of an event which was intense

Question 4

Usefulness

Answer 4

-Proves useful in real life situations such as proving eye-witness testimony’s are not as reliable as they seem

Question 5

Testability

Answer 5

-Easily tested by reading a story and reproducing it, like war of the ghosts

Question 6

Simplicity

Answer 6

-Findings can be quite simplistic due to him only using theories of schemas, not taking in consideration factors like emotions or biological factors.