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Preferred term

serial reproduction task  

Definition

  • A method of studying memory in which participants are asked to transmit information from one to the other (the first person's recall of the information becomes the second person's study material and so on).

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Bartlett, F.C. (1920). Some experiments on the reproduction of folk stories, Folk-Lore, 31, 30-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587X.1920.9719123

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

  • • Bartlett, F. C. (1932). Remembering: A study in experimental and social psychology. Cambridge University Press.

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

  • • Kirkpatrick, C. (1932). A tentative study in experimental social psychology. American Journal of Sociology, 38(2), 194-206.

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

  • • Ost, J., Udell, J., Dear, S., Zinken, J., Blank, H., & Costall, A. (2022). The serial reproduction of an urban myth: Revisiting Bartlett’s schema theory. Memory, 30(6), 775–783. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2022.2059514

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

  • • Wagoner, B. (2017). What makes memory constructive? A study in the serial reproduction of Bartlett’s experiments. Culture & Psychology, 23(2), 186–207. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067X17695759

    [Study type: literature review, replication / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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