Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett FRS[1] (20 October 1886 – 30 September 1969) was a British psychologist and the first professor of experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge.

[7] In 1909, Bartlett graduated First Class Honours with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy at The University Correspondence College.

Continuing his education at St John's College, Cambridge, Barlett received a distinction in moral science.

Soon after the war ended, Myers left his Cambridge position, leaving a large donation to finance department lectureships.

[12] The "War of the Ghosts" experiment from Remembering (1932) was Bartlett's most famous study and demonstrated the reconstructive nature of memory, and how it can be influenced by the subject's own schema.

[13] In the experiment, Bartlett assigned his Edwardian English participants to read the Native American Folklore titled "War of the Ghosts".

[15] Together their applied research focused on issues directed from government agencies, including training and experimental designs.

Expanding upon Craik's past work on "bodily skills" appealed to Bartlett possibly because of his passion for sports during his childhood years.

At this time, institutions in England and the United States bestowed numerous awards to Bartlett for his explanations of the adaptive synthesis of movements that humans create given any new situation.

He recognised various thinking processes that humans use, relating back to the methods he exercised in Remembering (1932) such as story recollection.

What he found was that "completion appears even unconsciously, and sheds light on how schemas, as a way of organizing past experiences, lead one towards constructive and predictive processes".

This also marked the year Bartlett was knighted for services to the Royal Air Force, on the basis of his wartime work in applied psychology.

Between 1952 and 1963, National Psychological Societies of Spain, Sweden, Italy, Turkey, and Switzerland elected him as an honorary member.