Bartlett (1932)

Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology

Cambridge University Press

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Bartlett, F. C. (1932). Remembering: A study in experimental and social psychology. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511759185

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Schema Application Representational Structures

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Schema application is remembering as reconstruction: when people recall unfamiliar material, such as a folk tale from another culture, they rationalize and reshape it to fit the knowledge frameworks they already hold