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Psychology 2: How Your Memory (Really) Works
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Psychology 2: How Your Memory (Really) Works

Learn how your brain creates, manages, and edits your memories and how you can memorize more effectively.
Last updated 11/2018
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand how our memory works
  • Know strategies to memorize information more effectively.
  • Get a big step closer to understanding the human mind.
  • Understand what role memory processes play in our life and society.
  • Know how our brain edits our memories and why it does this.

Course content

5 sections17 lectures1h 20m total length
  • Introduction3:55

    What is memory? And why is it so important?

  • Course overview0:55

    An overview of this course.

Requirements

  • Interest in psychology and memory
  • You don't need to follow my other courses before you do this course

Description

Everything we know about the world is based on information stored in our memory.

However, decades of research have 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 get from 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

So enroll now and find out how your memory really works.

Let me add that I want you to be 100% happy with this course.

If there is anything you are not satisfied with you can get 100% of your money back.

So, go ahead and give it a try.

Once you enroll you can start with any lecture and see for yourself what it has in store for you.

And you can ask me any question you want to ask.


Who this course is for:

  • Everybody who wants to learn how our memory works
  • Everybody who is interested in psychology or the human brain
  • Beginning psychology or neuroscience students