Synopses & Reviews
This is a timely reissue of this influential 1932 study of remembering.
Review
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
Synopsis
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. Based on observations, 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
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.