Topics to be covered:
Memory: Structure and processes
Working memory
Memory and Learning
Memory processes
Concepts and categories
Remembering and forgetting
Amnesia
Everyday memory
Eyewitness testimony and recovered memory
Language and memory
KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES:
On completion of this module the student should be able to:
Discuss issues of attention and memory, including the main theories in these areas.
Describe neuropsychological impairments of memory and relate them to current theories.
Describe everyday functioning of memory and explain how this relates to theories developed mainly from the study of memory in the laboratory.