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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PSY 210 Introduction to Learning

3 Credit(s)
This course presents an overview of research in animal and human learning including topics in reflexive behavior, and classical and operant conditioning.  Emphasis will be placed on behaviorism as a philosophy of science, reasoning about cause and effect, measurement and evaluation of behavior, evolutionary mechanisms, ethics  and the application of learning (to both animal and human populations).  Three lecture hours per week.  
Prerequisite: PSY 101 .