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The Psychology of Skill Learning
Compare the first time you tried to tie your shoes to your present-day, shoelace-tying mastery. How did you...
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The Nearly Bloodless Coup
According to Professor Garland, the conclusion of the Greco-Persian Wars in the early 5th century B.C. was Athens' finest...
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Dark City, Dollhouse, and Personal Identity
The nature of personal identity is tied to numerous philosophical concerns: memory, consciousness, even the possibility of...
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Optimize Your Learning
Professor Polk wraps things up by discussing five strategies that can make you a better learner. These strategies draw on...
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Episodic Memory and Eyewitness Testimony
Learn that much of what we remember is often a plausible reconstruction of what might have happened, rather...
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Controversies in Explicit Learning Research
To wrap up the course's section on conscious, explicit learning, Professor Polk delivers an enticing "myth-busting" talk about...
