The Constructive Mind

Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Imprints Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Preview of this Book -- Notes -- 1 Life and Work of a Cambridge Psychologist -- From the Cotswolds to Cambridge -- Cambridge University: From Philosophy to Psychology -- First World War: The Cambridge Laboratory -- Between the Wars: Institutional Leader and Social Psychologist -- Second World War and Its Aftermath: The Human-Machine Interface -- Conclusion: Bartlett's Life Course and Legacy -- Notes -- 2 Experiments in Psychology -- From Elements to Wholes: Experimental Psychology, 1885-1910 -- Experiments on Perceiving and Imagining -- Experiments on Remembering -- Reflections on Methodology -- Replications and Extensions -- Conclusion: Rethinking the Experiment -- Notes -- 3 Cultural Diffusion and Reconstruction -- From Cultural Evolution to Diffusion -- Rivers's Diffusionism -- Bartlett's Social Psychological Approach -- From Instincts to Tendencies -- Group Organization -- Diffusion by Contact and Borrowing -- Some Principles of Cultural Change -- From Primitive to Modern Culture -- Modern Culture and Political Propaganda -- Social Representations Theory as a Contemporary Diffusionist Approach -- Conclusion: A Conditional Analysis of Cultural Change -- Notes -- 4 Concept of Schema in Reconstruction -- Trace Theory of Memory -- From Storage to Action: Bartlett's Functionalism -- Head's Schema Theory -- Bartlett's Elaboration of Schema -- Turning Around upon Schemata -- Reconstruction of Schema, Phase 1: Bartlett's Students -- Reconstruction of Schema, Phase 2: Cognitive Psychology -- Reconstruction of Schema, Phase 3: Ecological and Discursive Psychology -- Conclusion: Past, Present, and Future of Schema -- Notes -- 5 Social Psychology of Remembering -- Collective Memory: Jung and Halbwachs