Sir Frederick Bartlett's research on the recall of stories and drawings revealed that
A) people could handle seven plus or minus two pieces of information.
B) older people recalled more detail in the pictures, while younger people recalled the stories more accurately.
C) people recreated the stories, making them shorter and more consistent with their own individual points of view.
D) accuracy was best within one hour of the original reading, or look.

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Bartlett found that people tended to remember stories by altering or simplifying them to fit their own cultural backgrounds and personal experiences. This process of "schema-driven distortion" meant that different people recalled the same story in slightly different ways, with individual details being lost or altered along the way.

Sir Frederick Bartlett's Research on the Recall of Stories and Drawings