Topic guide · Learning, memory and education / Methods, evidence and reproducibility
How do teaching goals, tasks and feedback fit together?
Design one lesson whose intended outcome, practice task and assessment call for the same kind of thinking.
Topic guide · Development across life / Learning, memory and education / Personality and individual differences
What changes in cognition as we age?
Distinguish kinds of performance and separate age differences from evidence of change.
Topic guide · Mental health and intervention / Learning, memory and education / Emotion, motivation and sleep
How are fear, avoidance and anxiety connected?
Connect fear learning and avoidance with wider clinical and developmental questions.
Topic guide · Reasoning and decisions / Learning, memory and education
Why do intentions lose to habits or procrastination?
Compare philosophical, learning and time-preference accounts without turning an explanatory model into a moral diagnosis or a treatment claim.
Topic guide · Learning, memory and education
How can practice produce lasting learning?
Turn a small piece of study into an attempt, a comparison with the source and a later check; keep the task aligned with the intended understanding.
Topic guide · Language and communication / Learning, memory and education
How do we recognise and retrieve words?
Ask what knowing a word involves and how recognition, retrieval and production tasks make different demands on that knowledge.
Topic guide · Learning, memory and education / Cells, circuits and brains
Why can one kind of memory fail while another remains?
Use contrasts between memory tasks, patient evidence and computational models to ask what a memory explanation must account for.
Topic guide · Cells, circuits and brains / Learning, memory and education / Computational approaches and AI
How do synapses change a circuit’s response?
Separate transmission, short-term changes and longer-term learning rules before moving to networks.
Topic guide · Learning, memory and education
What do conditioning experiments explain about learning?
Distinguish cue–outcome learning, action–outcome learning and broader uses of the word habit before judging what an experiment explains.
Topic guide · Learning, memory and education / Methods, evidence and reproducibility
What can learning analytics actually tell an educator?
Connect recorded learning traces to a defensible educational question, distinguishing measurement, prediction and evidence of improvement.
Lectures and explanations
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Lecture 10: Memory I
Introduces memory categories, retention and interference through the first memory session in MIT’s introductory psychology course.
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Lecture 7 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory
Paul Bloom moves from animal communication and language–thought questions into perception, attention and different kinds of memory.
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18. Recurrent Networks
Introduces mathematical descriptions of recurrent networks in relation to memory storage and decision-making.
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20. Hopfield Networks
Examines attractor and winner-take-all networks, long-term memory models and Hopfield-network capacity.
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Neural Underpinnings of Individual Recognition in the Brain
Isabella Catalano studies how zebra finches recognise individuals using auditory and visual information.
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Lecture 11: Memory II: Amnesia and Memory Systems
Uses amnesia and the case of H. M. to introduce distinctions among memory systems and the role of brain evidence in studying them.
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Video 1: STDP
Introduces a synaptic learning model in which weight changes depend on the relative timing of pre- and postsynaptic spikes.
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Lecture 4 - Foundations: Skinner
Introduces Skinner and behaviourism, compares forms of learning and discusses why behaviourism alone is insufficient for the course’s account of mental life.
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Lecture 9 - Virtue and Habit I
Connects Aristotle’s account of acquiring virtue with habituation and comparisons to conditioning and parenting practices.
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Lecture 23 - Asymmetric Information: Silence, Signaling and Suffering Education
Studies communication under asymmetric information, contrasting verifiable disclosure with costly signals and discussing education as a signalling example.
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Lecture 9: Learning
Surveys classical and operant conditioning, their limits, learned helplessness and delayed gratification in MIT’s 2011 introductory psychology course.
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Lecture 11 - Weakness of the Will and Procrastination
Discusses weakness of will, delay of gratification and discounting, then presents several proposed ways of structuring self-regulation.
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Lecture 8 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (cont.)
Reviews memory types, limitations, strategies and disorders, then discusses suggestibility and the social interpretation of memory research.
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Lecture 35 : Learning & Instruction (Contd.)
“Lecture 35 : Learning & Instruction (Contd.)” is listed in Psychology of Learning. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Interview with Dr. Kirupa Priyadarshini
“Interview with Dr. Kirupa Priyadarshini” is listed in Making Learning Engaging Through Interactive Games. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Neuroscience of Human Movement : Primary Motor Cortex Part - 10
“Neuroscience of Human Movement : Primary Motor Cortex Part - 10” is listed in Neuroscience of Human Movements. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.