Almost a century after its publication, "Remembering" is still worth reading—for its clarity, empirical rigour, and, like all good psychological research, its revelations of what makes us human.
I'm tempted to say that this outline of Prof. Bartlett's work is a fine piece of culturally shaped recollection, but that is just a rhetorical flourish. I enjoyed reading it. The steps from Freud to Bartlett and onwards to others such as De Groot and Loftus are worth retracing. The wonder is that there remain echelons of experimental psychologists still wedded to the abstracted methods and models developed by Ebbinghaus and his successors.
I'm tempted to say that this outline of Prof. Bartlett's work is a fine piece of culturally shaped recollection, but that is just a rhetorical flourish. I enjoyed reading it. The steps from Freud to Bartlett and onwards to others such as De Groot and Loftus are worth retracing. The wonder is that there remain echelons of experimental psychologists still wedded to the abstracted methods and models developed by Ebbinghaus and his successors.