85-790 Human Memory - Readings in Psychology
9–12 units, Carnegie Mellon University
Without memory, people would barely be able to function we could not communicate because we would not remember meanings of words, nor what anyone said to us we could have no friends because everyone would be a stranger no memory of meeting anyone we could have no sense of self because we could not remember anything about ourselves either we could not predict anything about the future because we would have no recollections of the past we would not know how to get around, because we would have no knowledge of the environment. This course will discuss issues related to memory at all levels the sensory registers, i.e., how we perceive things working and shortterm memory longterm memory or our knowledge base. We will discuss recent advances in cognitive neuroscience as they inform our understanding of how human memory works. We will discuss the differences between proceduralskill knowledge, and declarativefact knowledge and between implicit memories that affect behavior without conscious awareness and explicit memory intentional or conscious recollections. Other topics will include clinical cases of memory problems such as various forms of amnesia. GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY.
Prerequisites: none listed
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