Categories: Biographical notes
Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett (1886 – 1969) was a British psychologist (professor of experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge). He is remembered (appropriately) especially for series of studies on memory that used natural materials (such as stories, folk tales) rather than the nonsense materials widely used at the time. Bartlett showed that the notion of memories that are formed in a fixed manner and later activated unchanged was not supported by research. Rather, memories shift over time, and remembering was partially a constructive process.
