Memory Research Seminar
The experimental study of remembering has been a vital part of psychology since the beginning of the discipline. The most productive experimental approach to this subject has been a matter of intense debate and controversy. The disputes have centered on the relationship between the forms of memory studied in the laboratory and the uses of memory in everyday life. We will engage this debate through the study of extraordinary memories, autobiographical memories, the role of visual imagery in memory, accuracy of memory, expertise, eyewitness testimony, metaphors of memory, and the anatomy of memory. Frederic Bartlett’s constructive theory of memory will form the theoretical backbone of the course. Most conference work will involve experimental explorations of memory. Some previous coursework in psychology is required.
Psychology courses
- Babies, Birds and ’bots: An Introduction to Developmental Cognitive Science
- Child and Adolescent Development
- First-Year Studies: Child and Adolescent Development in North American and African Contexts: Opportunities and Inequalities
- Children’s Friendships
- Children’s Health in a Multicultural Context
- Children’s Literature: Developmental and Literary Perspectives
- Crossing Borders and Boundaries: The Social Psychology of Immigration
- Cultural Psychology of Development
- Environment, Race, and the Psychology of Place
- First-Year Studies: The Developing Child: Perspectives from Experience, Observation, and Theory
- Gender Research Seminar: Focus on Men and Masculinities
- Individualism and/or Diversity Reconsidered
- Introduction to the Theory of Social Representations
- Landscapes of Injustice: Psychology and Social Change
- Memory Research Seminar
- Mindfulness: Neuroscientific and Psychological Perspectives
- Narrative Neuropsychology
- Pathways of Development: Psychopathology and Other Challenges to the Developmental Process
- Personality Development
- Puzzling Over People: Social Reasoning in Childhood and Adolescence
- Social Thinking
- The Changing Self: Narratives of Personal Transformation
- The Empathic Attitude
- The Feeling Brain: The Biology and Psychology of Emotions
- Theories of Development
- Theories of the Creative Process
- The Psychology of Religious Experience
- The Synapse to Self: The Neuroscience of Self-Identity
- Trauma, Loss, and Resilience
Vera Wang '71 addresses Class of 2013; photos, videos, media clips available on Commencement site