PSYC 315 - Foundations of Learning and Memory

Fall or Spring (3) Barnet, Mingee, Porter, Staff Prerequisite(s): PSYC 201 (NQR, GER 2B)

Explores the basis of complex human and animal behavior from a general-process approach seeking to understand evolved processes of learning that apply to many different situations. Topics: why behavior changes, classical and instrumental conditioning, punishment, biological basis of learning, and animal cognition.