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Remembering A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology

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ISBN-10: 0521483565

ISBN-13: 9780521483568

Edition: 2nd 1932 (Revised)

Authors: Frederic. C. Bartlett, Walter Kintsch

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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 Bartletts 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…    
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Book details

List price: $47.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1932
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/30/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

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Experimental Studies
Experiment in psychology
Experiments on perceiving
Experiments on imaging
Experiments on remembering
The method of description
The method of repeated reproduction
The method of picture writing
The method of serial reproduction
The method of serial reproduction; picture material
Perceiving, recognizing, remembering
A theory of remembering
Images and their functions
Meaning
Remembering as a Study in Social Psychology
Social psychology
Social psychology and the matter of recall
Social psychology and the manner of recall
Conventionalism
The notion of a collective unconscious
The basis of social recall
A summary and some conclusions