SOURCE: From Foss, D. J., & Hakes, D. T., Psycholinguistics: An Introduction to the Psychology of Language, 1st edition, copyright © 1978. Reprinted with permission of Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ.
after 15 minutes or so, test yourself by trying to write down the story from memory, without going back and re-reading it. Several features of Bartlett's results indicated that recall took place through an attempt to fabricate or ...
readily inferred from the facts given in the story and from general knowledge about battles among Indians. Remembering that many were wounded in the battle is another example of drawing inferences from a schema.
This occurs when both stimuli fall within the range of the original receptive field (Moran & Desimone, 1985). Furthermore, when the task requires a finer discrimination between, say, the orientation of two lines, the response of a ...
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The people came down to the water, and they began to fight, and many were killed. But the young man heard one of the warriors say, “Quick, let us go home; that Indian has been hit.” Now he thought, “Oh, they are ghosts.
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