Create a professional development PowerPoint presentation focused on how theories, principles, and evidence-based best practices related to memory models and processes; knowledge representation, organization, and manipulation; and language acquisition and competency can be applied in the context of the professional specialty you aspire to.
How did theories and models of memory, language, and knowledge evolve over time? Which ones seem most credible today?
What processes are involved in the acquisition and use of language? Are they more guided by inherited or environmental factors (nature or nurture)?
What are the relationships between memory, language, and knowledge?
What would it be like to live without memory? Without language?
What is declarative knowledge and how is its representation and organization explained by various theories?
What is procedural knowledge and how is it represented in the mind? How does it differ from declarative knowledge?
How do brain physiology and neuroscience help to explain normal and abnormal facilities with language, memory, and acquisition and retrieval of knowledge? Does science point toward interventions that could help persons with issues in these areas? Does it point toward ways to enhance capacities?
How might you help clients or students give up their intuitively held yet erroneous beliefs about the world?
Do culturally diverse populations experience memory, knowledge, and language differently?
How do emotions impact memory, knowledge, and language ability?
