
What is memory? And why is it so important?
An overview of this course.
We have several kinds of memories and knowing them is important for understanding memory problems such as in amnesia.
If a part of the memory system from the last lecture is broken, we can get different kinds of amnesia.
There are different compartments in our long-term memories, which you can also experience in your everyday life.
Our memories are connected via associations, which channel the flow of information in our memory.
It's a though job to find a memory in a library as big as our long-term memory. Here is how our brain does it.
There are three main reasons why we forget things.
There are different degrees to which we can remember something and this can have dramatic consequences in court.
We tend to think of our memory as error-free. Nothing could be further from the truth! One big problem is that our memory often confuses things with each other.
What if your brain successfully retrieved the correct memory from your mental library? Can you trust this memory? Unfortunately, you can't.
Why does our brain edit our memories? The answer has to do with schemas.
Find out how you can help your brain to learn things more effectively in this lecture.
Mnemonics weave the learning principles from the last lecture together in a very effective way, making it possible for people to memorize huge amounts of information very fast. Find out how this works in this lecture.
A summary of the whole course.
Memory processes play a role in social unfairness, psychological disorders, psychological treatments, and more. Find out how memory processes relate to other psychological processes in this lecture.
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.