MEMORY AND LANGUAGE

School of Psychology

College of Life and Environmental Sciences

Details

Code 08638

Level of study First Year

Credit value 10

Semester 2

Module description

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.

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures and workshops