Frederic Bartlett

For the American artist and art collector, see Frederic Clay Bartlett.

Frederic Bartlett
Born(1886-10-20)20 October 1886
Stow-on-the-Wold, England
Died30 September 1969(1969-09-30) (aged 82)
Cambridge, England
Known forMemory schema
Transmission chain method
AwardsRoyal Medal (1952)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge

Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett FRS[1] (20 October 1886 – 30 September 1969) was a British psychologist and the first professor of experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge. He was one of the forerunners of cognitive psychology as well as cultural psychology.[2] Bartlett considered most of his own work on cognitive psychology to be a study in social psychology, but he was also interested in anthropology, moral science, philosophy, and sociology.[3][4][5][6] Bartlett proudly referred to himself as "a Cambridge psychologist" because while he was at the University of Cambridge, settling for one type of psychology was not an option.[6]

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  2. ^ Wagoner, B. (2017). The Constructive Mind: Bartlett's Psychology in Reconstruction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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  5. ^ "Obituary Notices". BMJ. 4 (5676): 175–179. 1969. doi:10.1136/bmj.4.5676.175. PMC 1629959. PMID 4898567.
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