Week

Date

Topics

Reading (do before class)
R = Radvansky, P = Parkin

1

Tu -- Apr 1

OVERVIEW
Introduction and course overview

Purchase textbooks

 

Th -- Apr 3

HISTORY
Early memory models, memory research methods

R: Ch 1, p 1-20
R: Ch 3, p 45-64

2

Tu -- Apr 8

MODELS
Senory, short-term and working memory

R: Ch 4 & 5, p 65-112
P: Ch 1 & 2, p 1-29

 

Th -- Apr 10

LONG-TERM MEMORY
Episodic memory, memory for space and time

R: Ch 7 & 8, p 133-186

3

Tu -- Apr 15

Semantic memory

R: Ch 9 & 10, p 187-238
P: Ch 3, p 30-51

 

Th -- Apr 17

Midterm 1

R: Ch 8 & 10 will not be on the midterm or final exam.

4

Tu -- Apr 22

Semantic memory (cont.)

 
 

Th -- Apr 24

Autobiographical Memory

R: Ch 11, p 239-257

5

Tu -- Apr 29

Memory and Reality

R: Ch 12, p. 259-277
 

Th -- May 1

Metamemory

R: Ch 14, p 299-318

6 Tu -- May 6 Memory and Development R: Ch 15, p 319-338
 

Th -- May 8

Midterm 2

None
7 Tu -- May 13

Neuroscience of Memory

R: Ch 2, p 21-44
P: Ch 5, 67-84
P: Ch 8 & 9, p 124-162
Blackboard (sleep article)

  Th -- May 15 ORGANIC DISORDERS
Amnesia, Korsakoff's Syndrome 		R: Ch 17, p 361-375
P: Ch 6 & 7, p 85-123
R: Ch 16, p 339-359
Blackboard (N.A. article)
8 Tu -- May 20

FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS
Hypnotic amnesia, memory and dissociative disorders (fugue, hysteria)

P: Ch 10, p 163-184
Blackboard (Spanos Ch 2-3)
  Th -- May 22 No class today None

9

Tu -- May 27

Multiple personality, cross-cultural disorders (amok), psychodynamic explanations

Blackboard (Spanos Ch 12-13)

 

Th -- May 29

Memory and emotion, PTSD

Blackboard (LeDoux)

10

Tu -- Jun 3

Memory, crime and law, children's testimony

Chap 13, p 279-298
Blackboard (Ceci & Bruck)

 

Th -- Jun 5

Memory improvement, remediation

P: Chap 4, p 52-63
P: Chap 11, p 185-196
Blackboard (PQ4R)

Finals Week

Th -- Jun 12

FINAL EXAM -- 9:10-11:10 AM in regular classroom, please be on time