week 9: Memory

Memory is critical to humans and all other living organisms. Practically all of our daily activities—talking, understanding, reading, and socializing—depend on our having learnt and stored information about our environments. Memory allows us to retrieve events from the distant past or from moments ago. It enables us to learn new skills and to form habits. Without the ability to access past experiences or information, we would be unable to comprehend language, recognize our friends and family members, find our way home, or even tie a shoelace. Life would be a series of disconnected experiences, each one new and unfamiliar. Without any sort of memory, it would be impossible for humans to survive. Philosophers, psychologists, writers, and other thinkers have long been fascinated by memory.

 

  Week

                                  Topics

             Date

  

   09

  MEMORY 

  • Concept of memory (Weiten, 2017; p. 294, 308)
  • process and typres of memory (Weiten, 2017; pp. 313-315)
  • Top up and top down processing (Sternberg, 2006; pp. 382,393-398)
  • Forgetting 
  • Measures of retention

 

       30-04-2020

 

      01 -05-2020