... are less intelligent or forgetful and so create events that seem logical in that situation. Schacter (1987) Bartlett (1932) tested the first hypothesis. He used a technique called repeated reproduction and told the participants a story and asked them to verbally reproduce it shortly after, then repeatedly over weeks. The story was from a different culture to the participant. He showed that participants remembered different parts of stories and interpreted then differently using their own cultural expectations. His main finding was that the reproduced story was shorter than the original. In another study, Loftus, Burns, and Miller (1978) had subjects view a series of slides depicting an car accident. Later a test was given about what depicted, and in the test was either a question that referred to a yield sign or did not refer to a yield sign. In fact, there was a slide with a stop sign, ...

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