Frederic Bartlett

Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett (1886 to 1969) was a British psychologist, born in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, and one of the pioneers of cognitive and experimental psychology in Great Britain. He was a leading figure in the early days of the experimental psychology laboratory at the University of Cambridge, and his most significant work was on memory. He rejected the use of nonsense syllables to isolate memory from other cognitive and social influences, and showed that remembering is not simple and localized but involves schemata, cognitive constructs shaped by past experience, attitudes, the social situation and cultural factors.