PSY 2048 LEARNING AND MEMORY
This survey will take a cognitive approach to an overview of basic principles of learning and memory in humans and nonhuman animals. It will examine several different theories of how learning occurs and how learned information is stored in memory. Some of the topics covered will be classical and operant conditioning (including fear conditioning, generalization, discrimination, punishment, reinforcement, taste aversion, and learned helplessness), habituation, implicit and explicit memory (including interference, forgetting, decay, encoding and retrieval mechanisms, short and long term memory, spatial memory, amnesia, infantile amnesia and eyewitness testimony), and comparative memory across species. Recommended: PSY 1004: Fundamentals of Psychology.