Sir Fredrick Bartlett had his participants read a story called "The War of the Ghosts," a unique tale from the 18th century.Participants' recall of the story 20 hours later was highly inaccurate and Bartlett interpreted these results as being due to ______________.

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Bartlett concluded that the inaccuracies in recall were due to the lack of an appropriate schema, as participants tried to fit the unfamiliar story into their existing knowledge structures, leading to distortions.

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