Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology

by Frederic C. Bartlett , Introduction by Walter Kintsch

• ISBN13: 9780521482783
• ISBN10: 052148278X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-06-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In 1932, Cambridge University Press published Remembering, by psychologist, Frederic Bartlett. The landmark book described fascinating studies of memory and presented the theory of schema which informs much of cognitive science and psychology today. In Bartlett's most famous experiment, he had subjects read a Native American story about ghosts and had them retell the tale later. Because their background was so different from the cultural context of the story, the subjects changed details in the story that they could not understand. Based on observations like these, Bartlett developed his claim that memory is a process of reconstruction, and that this construction is in important ways a social act. His concerns about the social psychology of memory and the cultural context of remembering were long neglected but are finding an interested and responsive audience today. Now reissued in paperback, Remembering has a new Introduction by Walter Kintsch of the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Table of Contents

Biography	ix
Sir Frederic C. Bartlett
Introduction	xi
Walter Kintsch
Preface	xvii
Part I EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES
Experiment in Psychology	1	(13)
Experiments on Perceiving	14	(20)
Experiments on Imaging	34	(152)
Experiments on Remembering:
The Method of Description	47	(16)
Experiments on Remembering:
The Method of Repeated Reproduction	63	(32)
Experiments on Remembering:
The Method of Picture Writing	95	(23)
Experiments on Remembring:
The Method of Serial Reproduction; I	118	(59)
Experiments on Remembering:
The Method of Serial Reproduction; II. Picture Material	177	(9)
Perceiving, Recognising, Remembering	186	(11)
A Theory of Remembering	197	(18)
Images and their Functions	215	(12)
Meaning	227	(20)
Part II REMEMBERING AS A STUDY IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Social Psychology	239
Social Psychology and the Matter of Recall	247	(9)
Social Psychology and the Manner of Recall	256	(12)
Conventionalisation	268	(13)
The Notion of a Collective Unconscious	281	(12)
The Basis of Social Recall	293	(8)
A Summary and Some Conclusions	301	(14)
Index	315