Learning

Catalog description

The study of learning is critical to understanding how organisms acquire and remember information in order to better interact with their environment. The field of learning established psychology as an empirical branch of natural science, and was the dominant field of psychology for most of the 20th century. This course will introduce students to approaches to learning, learning theories, basic learning phenomena, and the importance of learning to the field of psychology as a whole. The ultimate goal of this class is to provide students with an advanced understanding of the basic learning paradigms and theories, and to identify epistemological virtues from learning that can be applied to all psychological disciplines.