Breaking from the Past

Frederick Bartlett's Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology offered a radical alternative to the century-old notion that memory was like a storehouse. Bartlett insisted that memories were not stored away, but were reconstructed on the run, with new rendering emerging with each act of reconstruction. As a result, psychologists should study not memory, but remembering, and focus on the social contexts in which remembering takes place. Recent work on deep learning and reconsolidation has provided substantial support for Bartlett's approach

Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · History of psychology · Social memory · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Memory Processes and Influences · Psychology · Social Representations and Identity