85-131 Freshmen Seminar: Understanding Memory and Memory Illusions

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

If you think your memory works like a video recorder or tape recorder, think again. If you think intention to learn information matters for remembering, think again. We store lots of information but our memories are imperfect and vulnerable to many types of errors. In this seminar you will learn how human memory works, including what affects what we encode, what affects how long we remember information and what affects how we remember things later. We will read papers by leading researchers in the field of human memory as well as some chapters from textbooks. We will watch several films concerned with how memory disorders such as anterograde amnesia affect individuals so afflicted.

Prerequisites: none listed

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