What is it about?
Bartlett is regarded as a pioneering, ground- breaking psychologist, famous for his 1932 book ' Remembering' ,with its ' War of the Ghosts' story in reconstructive recall. I show that very similar work was conducted prior to Bartlett and that, indeed, especially in regard to his experiment s on memory for extended passages, it is extremely likely that, and this without acknowledgement, he copied the work and concepts of an American psychologist, Ernest Norton Henderson(1903).
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Why is it important?
Taking other's work and ideas and using them without acknowledgement is unacceptable no matter how famous the author.
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It is never too late to make a contribution. I retired near 20 years ago as an educational psychologist and am aged 83.
Michael Davis
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This page is a summary of: Frederic Bartlett: A question of priority, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, January 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2017.1310910.
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