Frederic Bartlett

Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett ( born October 20, 1886 in Stow -on-the -Wold (Great Britain), † 1969 in Cambridge ) was a British psychologist and professor of experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge from 1931 until his retirement in 1951. with Kenneth Craik, he was responsible for the founding of the Medical Research Council 's Applied Psychology Research Unit ( APU) in Cambridge in 1944, whose director he was after the early death of Craik in 1945. He was one of the pioneers in the field of cognitive psychology.

In 1932 he became a member of the Royal Society, he was beaten for his services in the field of applied psychology in the Royal Air Force for Knight ( a rare honor for a psychologist ) and in 1948.

The British Society for Ergonomics donated in his honor the Bartlett Medal, and the Society for Experimental psychology is an annual Bartlett Lecture out.

Example from cognitive psychology by Bartlett

In his book Remembering (1932 ), he laid the foundations for schema research. The game Chinese whispers, in which one person a story is whispered in his ear, whereupon they must whisper the contents of the next one, Bartlett gave her the idea to investigate the influence of the existing prior knowledge on the perception and storage of new information.

The sketch of a Polynesian mask drawing was shown a subject as "Portrait of a Man". The subject she had a little later from memory trace (Fig. 52).

Each drawing was presented to each of another person with the same task. Figure 54 shows the transformation of the Asian scheme, image 55 to the European scheme of a face.

His findings led him to see the memory as a kind of collection of schemas that influence the perception and thus the memory.

The accompanying pictures 51 to 55 show his findings based on a study by the French researcher Philippe.