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Breaking from the Past: Bartlett's Role in Rethinking Memory: Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology, Frederic Bartlett.

Frederick Bartlett's Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology offered a radical alternative to the century-old notion that memory was like a storehouse. Bartlett insisted that memories were not stored away, but were reconstructed on the run, with new rendering emerging with each ac...

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Published in:Social Research Vol. 89; no. 2; pp. 319 - 329
Main Author: Hirst, William
Format: Article
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press Summer2022
Subjects:
Psychologists
Social context
Memory
Social psychology
Experimental psychology
Deep learning
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:Frederick Bartlett's Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology offered a radical alternative to the century-old notion that memory was like a storehouse. Bartlett insisted that memories were not stored away, but were reconstructed on the run, with new rendering emerging with each act of reconstruction. As a result, psychologists should study not memory, but remembering, and focus on the social contexts in which remembering takes place. Recent work on deep learning and reconsolidation has provided substantial support for Bartlett's approach.