Bartlett, Frederic Charles (1886–1969)

English psychologist. He put forward the view of sensory and memory processes as the expression of a dynamic integration of an organism's past experience with its current situation and needs. The results of his extensive researches, centred on perception, recognition, and recall processes, are collected in his book Remembering: A Study of Experimental and Social Psychology 1932. Knighted 1948.

Bartlett, born in Gloucestershire, studied at London and Cambridge universities and, with C S Myers (1873–1946) and W H R Rivers (1864–1922), founded the Psychological Laboratory at Cambridge. He went on to become the first professor of experimental psychology at Cambridge 1931.

He also carried out influential work in applied and industrial psychology on problems associated with submarine detection, the design and control of aircraft, and the training of air-force personnel during both world wars.