PSYC 144. Memory and Amnesia (4 units)
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Description
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: upper-division standing.
Prerequisite courses
PSYC 144 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have PSYC 144 as a prerequisite.