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Psychology 2: How Your Memory (Really) Works

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About Psychology 2: How Your Memory (Really) Works

Introduction!

What is memory?

Course overview

Working and long-term memory

Amnesia: When memories disappear

What is stored in our long-term memory?

Associations: The memory highway

Retrieval: searching through your mental library

Why do we forget?

Retrieval stages: You look familiar but who are you?

Similarity and memory confusions

Why you cannot trust your memories

Schemas: How your brain edits memories

Encoding: How to learn effectively

Mnemonics: Expand your memory capacity

Course summary

The bigger picture

Conclusion

What You Will Learn?

  • Everything we know about the world is based on information stored in our memory..
  • However, research has shown that our memory is not as accurate as we think..
  • Instead, our brain secretly edits our memories without us being aware of it..
  • What will you learn in this course?.
  • Understand how your memory works..
  • Know how your brain secretly edits your memories and why it does this.
  • Know strategies to memorize information more effectively.
  • Understand what role memory processes play in our life and society.
  • Get a big step closer to understanding the human mind..
  • Memory is where everything comes together..
  • When I started to learn about memory I thought that it is about learning things by heart..
  • What I did not realize was that everything in our mind takes place in our memory..
  • Our thoughts, feelings, and experiences would not exist without our memory..
  • In other words, I realized that memory is about MUCH more than learning things by heart..
  • So what will you learn specifically?.
  • How your brain remembers things.
  • Why your brain forgets things.
  • The mechanisms underlying amnesia.
  • Why you should be careful with trusting what a witness remembers.
  • How your brain secretly edits your memories.
  • How to effectively memorize new information.
  • The role of memory in our everyday life and our society.