Remembering
Book description
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…
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1 author picked Remembering as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This 1932 work by Bartlett demonstrates many of the dynamics that Loftus would later use to conceptualize eyewitness memory, and that many scholars in law enforcement psychology, including myself, use on an everyday basis.
Bartlett showed that memories are not static representations of reality, admittedly with occasional lapses into forgetting.
Rather, in both the visual and verbal realms, Bartlett demonstrated that memories become abbreviated, operate in the direction of core or gist, and may be completely reconfigured in the direction of personal belief.
This work demonstrates strongly the fragility of human perception, memory, and the thought which derives from these…
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