Sir Frederick Bartlett's research on people's memories of a Native American story called "The War of the Ghosts" demonstrated how schemas can cause people to alter key aspects of the story so that it would make sense to them.

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Bartlett's research showed that when participants were asked to recall the story over time, they transformed it in ways that fit their own cultural expectations and knowledge structures, or schemas, demonstrating how memory is reconstructive.

Sir Frederick Bartlett's Research on People's Memories of a Native