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Sir Frederic Bartlett
Sir Frederic Bartlett, one of the founders of cognitive psychology, made fundamental contributions to the study of memory. He taught at St John's College, Cambridge, and for many years chaired the university's psychology laboratory. He established the Medical Research Council/Applied Psychology Research Unit, of which he became the honorary director. He was knighted in 1948 and received degrees from seven universities. When Bartlett died in 1969, Donald Broadbent wrote: "If any one man is to take credit because psychologists now contribute usefully to the space programme, to complex communications systems, and even to electric cookers, that man is probably Sir Frederic Bartlett."
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