Of course, these first attempts fell short of being scholarly, probably consisting of a few grunts and snorts at best. ... A ten-story building is erected, and a person who lives in a single-story house in the country sees the new building. To this person the structure may seem quite tall, as he has never seen any building taller than three stories. ... Since the second man usually works on buildings about thirty stories high, he thinks that the building is fairly short. ... Given that objects are ideas and humans possess minds to perceive them with, the nature of both ideas and min...

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It was believed that the literature should be of reverence and piety, preferable in religious nature. ... In the 1850's children were given the opportunity to read fiction stories geared toward them for one purpose, entertainment. ... " (Schreur) These methods are focusing on the behaviors and are short term solutions. ... The purpose is to have the reader experience the literature close to him or her in a story. ... The conventional means of dealing with these behaviors are short term. ...

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The reconstructive nature of memory leads to the idea that memory is unreliable with concepts, such as the schema theory. ... In Bartlett's highly regarded study (in 1932 as mentioned before), he also showed how the cultural expectations (or stereotypes) we possess consequently lead to inevitable adjustments in memory, as participant's recall distorted the content and style of the original story which was chosen to cause conflict between its contents and the reader's own knowledge of the world. ... However, how do we know that this would not happen with an English story? ... ...

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