with Michelle Miller, Chair, Psychology Department
Tuesday, February 28
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Cline Library Room 200
This session will offer a non-technical overview of major
theoretical ideas on memory, geared to instructors who want to optimize their teaching to take
advantage of the way human memory works. Relevant theories of short-term and working
memory will be reviewed, with particular attention to how these have been refined and changed in
recent years. Long-term memory will also be discussed, with emphasis on the concept that human
memory is an adaptation shaped by natural selection, an idea that instructors can use to create
more memorable learning experiences.
Dr. Miller recently published the article What College Teachers Should Know About Memory: A Perspective From
Cognitive Psychology, College Teaching, 59:3, 117-122 available at
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2011.580636)