Remembering¶
Bartlett, F. C., & Kintsch, W. (1932). Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology. Cambridge University Press.
Cited by¶
9 citations across 9 artifacts.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Primes¶
- Collective Systemic Learning
This sourceFoundational schema theory of reconstructive memory; remembering as effort after meaning shaped by prior frameworks.
- Formal vs. Informal Structures
This sourceLandmark work advancing schema theory and the reconstructive nature of memory.
- Narrative
- Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
- Pattern Completion (Filling the Incomplete)
- The structural lever is recognizing that the same neural mechanism produces both adaptive completion (when prior is good) and maladaptive confabulation (when prior is poor), and that the distinction cannot be inferred from the output alone — it requires epistemic verification.
This sourceEarly evidence-based documentation of schema-driven memory reconstruction, showing that memory completion depends on prior knowledge structures (schemas) that shape what details are filled in and what details are forgotten.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
Bartlett's schema evidence shows recall is reconstruction shaped by prior knowledge, so mismatched priors distort what is filled in; it says nothing of a shared neural mechanism or epistemic verification.
“Because their background was so different from the cultural context of the story, the subjects changed details in the story that they could not understand.”
- The structural lever is recognizing that the same neural mechanism produces both adaptive completion (when prior is good) and maladaptive confabulation (when prior is poor), and that the distinction cannot be inferred from the output alone — it requires epistemic verification.
- Schema
- Structural tension: Schemas are acquired in specific environments; applied elsewhere, they misfit.
This sourceEarly evidence-based documentation of schema-driven memory reconstruction, showing that memory completion depends on prior knowledge structures (schemas) that shape what details are filled in and what details are forgotten.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
Bartlett's abstract documents culture-bound reconstructive memory — subjects altered a story whose context they did not share — which supports schema-driven reconstruction but not the general 'misfit elsewhere' principle as stated.
“Because their background was so different from the cultural context of the story, the subjects changed details in the story that they could not understand.”
- Structural tension: Schemas are acquired in specific environments; applied elsewhere, they misfit.
- Selective Propagation
- In each case the far-end record is the intersection of what existed with what could travel.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
Bartlett's abstract documents serial reproduction that drops material the retellers could not assimilate, which backs the loss half of the claim but not the formal 'intersection' assertion.
“Because their background was so different from the cultural context of the story, the subjects changed details in the story that they could not understand.”
- In each case the far-end record is the intersection of what existed with what could travel.
- Sensemaking
This sourceEarly evidence-based documentation of schema-driven memory reconstruction, showing that memory completion depends on prior knowledge structures (schemas) that shape what details are filled in and what details are forgotten.
Domain-specific¶
- Fieldnote Backfill
- The cognitive engine of fieldnote backfill is displayed cleanly in Frederic Bartlett's "War of the Ghosts" studies (Remembering, 1932)
This sourceThe 'War of the Ghosts' repeated- and serial-reproduction experiments, in which recall of an unfamiliar folk tale was shortened, rationalised (largely unwittingly) and drawn toward familiar forms such as boats for canoes. Bartlett's conclusion that remembering is an imaginative reconstruction built from an organised schema of past experience plus a little outstanding detail, rather than the revival of fixed traces.
Supported in partVerified against the source
- The cognitive engine of fieldnote backfill is displayed cleanly in Frederic Bartlett's "War of the Ghosts" studies (Remembering, 1932)
Mechanisms¶
- Phone Tree or Chat Cascade
- A message relayed person to person mutates as it goes — details shift, urgency inflates, the source blurs — the same drift that makes the children's "telephone" game funny and a rumor dangerous.
This sourceBartlett's method of serial reproduction shows that material passed through successive people is transformed rather than exactly preserved.
- A message relayed person to person mutates as it goes — details shift, urgency inflates, the source blurs — the same drift that makes the children's "telephone" game funny and a rumor dangerous.
Verification¶
Does it exist? Confirmed. This work's DOI resolves to a registered record, which fixes its identity. That is all it fixes.
Does it back the claim? Read against the text for 4 of 9 citations: 4 supported in part. Each verdict is shown under its citation below, with what in the work backs the sentence.
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Links previously used in the corpus¶
Before the registry existed this work was also linked 3 other ways.
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/remembering/7F58B9793DAD79782D4AE989FAA287D1 ×2
- https://archive.org/details/Bartlett1932Remembering ×1
- https://www.cambridge.org/9780521483568 ×1
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