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Long-Term Memory: How It Works and How to Improve It

Tracking # 20-798123

$79.00

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Method Home Study

What you'll learn

Participants completing this 6-hour program should be able to:

  1. Identify how long-term memories are stored.
  2. Recognize how long-term memories are retrieved.
  3. List several ways how long-term memories are altered by experience.
  4. Name several ways long-term memory can be improved.

Course overview

This new program for health professionals is designed to explain how long-term memory is stored and retrieved and neuroscience-informed methods of protecting and improving long-term memory encoding and retrieval.

Subject areas

This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.

Florida Board of Nursing

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse

6h General

Licensed Practical Nurse

6h General

Registered Nurse

6h General

Florida Board of Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapist

6h General

Occupational Therapy Assistant

6h General

Florida Board of Pharmacy

Pharmacist

6h General

Registered Pharmacy Technician

6h General

Florida Board of Psychology

Limited License Psychologist

6h General

Psychologist

6h General

Disclosure statements

Participants completing this 6-hour program should be able to:

  1. Identify how long-term memories are stored.
  2. Recognize how long-term memories are retrieved.
  3. List several ways how long-term memories are altered by experience.
  4. Name several ways long-term memory can be improved.


C. Brock Kirwan, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Center at Brigham Young University and directs the MRI Research Facility. Dr. Kirwan is an expert in how long-term memories are formed, retrieved, and used to guide decision-making. He has also studied how appetite, physical activity, and sleep affect memory storage and retrieval.

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