Bartlett, Culture and Cognition

by Saito; Akiko

• ISBN13: 9780415201728
• ISBN10: 0415201721
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Frederic C. Bartlett is well known for his contributions to cognitive psychology, especially in the field of memory. This collection, by internationally renowned scholars including: Alan Baddeley, Richard Gregory, William Brewer, Steen Larsen, Michael Cole, Jennifer Cole and Mary Douglas, brings together contemporary applications of Bartlett's work in cognitive psychology. It also includes areas in which Bartlett has been hitherto largely ignored: sociocultural psychology and the history and philosophy of science. It will be of great interest to those engaged in cognitive science, psychology, anthropology and the history of science.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
List of figures and tables	xi
Foreword	xii
Jerome Bruner
Acknowledgements	xvii
PART I Introduction	1	(18)
Psychology as biological and social science	3	(11)
Akiko Saito
Prospects	12	(2)
The life and work of Frederic C. Bartlett	14	(5)
Alan Welford
Note	18	(1)
PART II Historical and theoretical issues	19	(48)
W.H.R. Rivers and the early history of psychology at Cambridge	21	(15)
Paul Whittle
Introduction	21	(1)
Rivers remembered by his contemporaries	22	(2)
Chronology	24	(8)
Discussion	32	(3)
Acknowledgements	35	(1)
Notes	35	(1)
Remembering Bartlett	36	(10)
Alan Baddeley
Richard Gregory
Bartlett and applied psychology	36	(3)
Bartlett and experimental psychology	39	(6)
Note	45	(1)
Bartlett's psycho-anthropological project	46	(21)
Alberto Rosa
Introduction	46	(1)
The `symbolic market' of ideas and Bartlett's heritage	46	(2)
The anthropological background of the Cambridge Psychological Laboratory	48	(3)
The social and the individual in Bartlett's early work	51	(4)
Feeling, emotion and cognition as the subjective side of action	55	(4)
Conventialisation and meaning: A study on symbolism	59	(4)
From Bartlett to our times: Elaborations	63	(2)
Conclusion: A new look at functionalism	65	(2)
PART III Contemporary research	67	(150)
Bartlett's concept of the schema and its impact on theories of knowledge representation in contemporary cognitive psychology	69	(21)
William F. Brewer
Introduction	69	(1)
Bartlett's empirical studies of human memory	70	(5)
The schema theory	75	(6)
Bartlett's data and Bartlett's theory	81	(1)
The reception of Bartlett's schema theory	82	(1)
Modern schema theory	83	(2)
Problems with schema theory and new directions	85	(4)
Conclusions	89	(1)
Bartlett's trilogy of memory: Reconstructing the concept of attitude	90	(25)
Steen F. Larsen
Dorthe Berntsen
Introduction	90	(1)
Images: The Leipzig heritage	91	(2)
Attitudes: The Wurzburg heritage	93	(7)
Propositional attitudes and remembering	100	(2)
Attitudes in autobiographical memory	102	(10)
Conclusions	112	(1)
Acknowledgements	113	(1)
Notes	113	(2)
Repeated reproduction from memory	115	(20)
Henry L. Roediger III
Erik T. Bergman
Michelle L. Meade
Bartlett's studies of repeated reproduction	116	(2)
Repeated testing: Reminiscence and hypermnesia	118	(4)
Have Bartlett's repeated reproduction experiments been replicated?	122	(3)
Replicating Bartlett's repeated reproduction experiments	125	(3)
Social influences on memory	128	(5)
Conclusions	133	(2)
Re-fusing anthropology and psychology	135	(20)
Jennifer Cole
Michael Cole
Early writing	135	(3)
Remembering and Thinking	138	(3)
Applying the concepts	141	(5)
Conventionalisation and remembering the colonial past in East Madagascar	146	(7)
Concluding remarks	153	(1)
Notes	154	(1)
Multilevel analyses of social bases of cognition	155	(24)
Akiko Saito
Bartlett's work on social bases of cognition	155	(1)
Bartlett's multilevel analyses	156	(7)
Sociogenesis of cognition: Conventionalisation	163	(7)
In relation to social representation theory	170	(5)
Conclusion	175	(2)
Notes	177	(2)
Memory and selective attention: Bartlett and Evans-Pritchard	179	(15)
Mary Douglas
Selective attention	179	(4)
Reciprocal innervation and distance perceptors	183	(2)
Remembering degrees of kinship	185	(3)
Remembering the dead	188	(1)
Distance perceptors and structural opposition	188	(5)
Note	193	(1)
Whatever happened to `social constructiveness'?	194	(23)
David Bloor
Social constructiveness	194	(2)
Bartlett on science and technology	196	(2)
Sound-locators	198	(2)
National styles	200	(7)
Bartlett and the sociology of science	207	(2)
Conclusion	209	(1)
Acknowledgements	209	(1)
Notes	210	(7)
Bibliography: The papers of Frederic Charles Bartlett	217	(34)
Hugh Frederic Bartlett
References	251	(22)
Author index	273	(6)
Subject index	279