Bartlett, Sir Frederic C(harles)

Bartlett, Sir Frederic C(harles)
born Oct. 20, 1886, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, Eng.
died Sept. 30, 1969, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

British psychologist best known for his studies of memory.

The first professor of experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge (1931–52), he also directed the university's psychological laboratory. His major work, Remembering (1932), described memories not as direct recollections but rather as mental reconstructions coloured by cultural attitudes and personal habits.

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