Frederick Bartlett

Frederick Bartlett (1886-1969) published a pioneering text entitled ‘Remembering’ in 1932.

It was groundbreaking because, unlike any of the aforementioned historical he suggested that recall is not just the reactivation of events from some sort of ‘storage bin’ but a whole new reprocessing in its own right.’

He argued that we use existing ‘structures of knowledge’ - concept called schemas, to help in the ‘reforming’ of the original memories. With this theory it has allowed for developing information processing theories.

Therefore our attitudes, expectations, belief and levels of motivation will highly influence the way in which we remember.
Frederick Bartlett