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Psychology Coursework An Experiment Into the Effect of Age on Serial Reproductive Memory Abstract Bartlett (1932) performed an experiment to investigate the reconstruction of memories. From this previous study the main aim of this investigation was to discover whether there is a correlation between age and its effect on serial reproductive memory. To conduct this research an experiment was devised where 2 groups of participants of 2 different ages were asked to listen to and reproduce the same story. There were the same numbers of people in each group, the members from both groups were chosen at random and all participants were chosen from a high school population. The results show that overall there was no difference between the groups in how much of the story was remembered. Introduction Serial Reproductive Memory is the name given to the type of memory that remembers events in sequence and then reproduces them whenever needed. This experiment...

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