s a teaching psychologist, Golding specializes in how
the memory operates and in the perception of memory
in the courtroom. Since arriving at UK as an assistant profes-
football plays that athletes must remember to excel. sor in 1988, he has taught Introduction to Psychology, and
I L. ,     i A. estimates that as many as 5,000 students have taken his Me-
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a need to remember a list of names or facts,
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things only became important to his father af- `   `
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manager. Of 3 Slgn Cempeny But as H remed Associate Professor jonathan Golding pac/es the house in Memorial Hall jor i
edule he father Sew 3 need fo? exteregl his lower division course, Psychology 101. His Introduction to Psychology  
m¤emOmCS’ and {Odell Wppldpt be Wltheut couise often draws close to 500 enrolled students each fall.
his calendar.
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my car eys.
, The result? Golding says, "I have never, ever, in my entire
life locked my keys in the car."
Can each of us say the same thing? Or do we remember?
john Schaifenhergei; APR, is Assistant Directorfor Puhlic  
Relations, UK Alumni Association, jgscha1@pop.u}ey.edu  
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