Advisory: ENGL 190 eligibility

Class Hours: 54 lecture total

This course will explore how the mind/brain stores and retrieves information.  Core concepts of modern research and theorizing about human memory and cognition will be reviewed.  Research on the application of memory and learning principles to memory and learning improvement will be investigated.  Students will learn to evaluate the role of attention, prior learning, cognitive style, personality functioning and motivation in memory encoding and retrieval.  Changes in memory processes through the lifespan will be examined including recent research on topics such as Alzheimer’s and amnesia.