Frederic Bartlett

De: Josh Graham

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Frederic C. Bartlett
A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy

What if memory wasn’t a camera that simply recorded the past, but a living act of imagination that rebuilt it each time we recalled it? Frederic Bartlett asked that question — and in doing so, reshaped psychology forever.

This concise yet powerful volume traces Bartlett’s journey from a sickly boy in rural Gloucestershire to Cambridge’s first professor of experimental psychology, capturing his radical insight that remembering is not reproduction but reconstruction. Alongside his landmark book Remembering (1932), Bartlett pioneered schema theory, cultural psychology, and applied research in education, law, and war. His ideas continue to echo in classrooms, courtrooms, and even the algorithms that shape our digital lives.

Alongside an accessible exploration of Bartlett’s theories, you’ll discover:
• How the famous War of the Ghosts experiment revealed that memory is shaped by culture and expectation.
• Why schemas act as scaffolds for knowledge — powerful tools that both guide and distort our recall.
• The surprising ways Bartlett applied psychology to pilot training, perception under stress, and human factors in wartime.
• How his insights foreshadowed the fallibility of eyewitness testimony and inspired later work by Elizabeth Loftus.
• Why Bartlett’s legacy stretches from cognitive psychology to artificial intelligence — and even to social media, where algorithms reinforce our schemas daily.

Part biography, part theory guide, and part reflection on legacy, this book offers a vivid gateway into Bartlett’s life and enduring influence. It humanises memory as an imaginative act, revealing both its dangers and its creative potential.

The Pioneers of Human Behaviour series celebrates the lives and legacies of psychology’s greatest minds, presenting timeless insights in a format designed to inspire, inform, and endure.