PSYC 144Memory and Amnesia
This course will provide a survey of current research and theory concerning human memory and amnesia from both cognitive and neuropsychological perspectives. Topics may include short-term (working) memory, encoding and retrieval, episodic and semantic memory, interference and forgetting, false memory, eyewitness memory, emotion and memory, famous case studies of amnesia, and the effects of aging and dementia on memory.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “upper-division standing.”
Where it sits in degree plans
One of the options in (1)
- Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience (B.S.) (PC34)