Remembering
A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology

This is a timely reissue of this influential 1932 study of remembering.

Frederic C. Bartlett (Author), Walter Kintsch (Introduction by)

9780521483568, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 June 1995

344 pages, 32 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.573 kg

Remembering is a remarkable book in many ways...Bartlett's great book stands as one of the permanent milestones in the psychology of memory." Henry L. Roediger III, Contemporary Psychology

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.

Part I. Experimental Studies: 2. Experiment in psychology
3. Experiments on perceiving
III Experiments on imaging
4-8. Experiments on remembering: (a) The method of description
(b) The method of repeated reproduction
(c) The method of picture writing
(d) The method of serial reproduction
(e) The method of serial reproduction
picture material
9. Perceiving, recognizing, remembering
10. A theory of remembering
11. Images and their functions
12. Meaning
Part II. Remembering as a Study in Social Psychology: 13. Social psychology
14. Social psychology and the matter of recall
15. Social psychology and the manner of recall
16. Conventionalism
17. The notion of a collective unconscious
18. The basis of social recall
19. A summary and some conclusions.

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]