Instructor: William (Bill) Confer

Modern psychology uses the scientific method to study thought, experience, and behavior. This course will review some of the historical right and wrong turns that ultimately steered psychology from authoritative guesses and outright quackery to evidence-based applications and practices. Although not a course in memory improvement, it will include an overview of the basics of learning, forgetting, and memory revealed by psychological research and then illustrate their applications to techniques for learning efficiency and improved retention.