Apr 30, 2024  
2016 - 2018 CNM Catalog, Volume 49 
    
2016 - 2018 CNM Catalog, Volume 49 [The CNM Academic Year includes Fall, Spring, Summer Terms]

PSY 2260 - Psychology of Learning and Memory

3 credit hour(s)
Prerequisite: PSY 1105 .
Provides an overview of how information is acquired, stored, and retrieved.  Topics covered include some of the basic assumptions underlying research on learning and memory, distinctions between behavioral and cognitive approaches, principles of classical and operant conditioning, associative and cognitive processes of reinforcement, principles of memory processes including working memory and long-term memory, retrieval of information from memory, and the role of concepts in learning and memory.