Psychology
PSYC 3450: Learning and Motivation
Lecture - 4 credits
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- Offers an introduction to the basic learning and motivational principles that permit humans and animals to adapt effectively to a changing environment.
- Emphasizes research and theories of operant and Pavlovian conditioning, with discussions of discriminations and generalization, avoidance and punishment, acquired motivational states (for example, addiction), concept formation, biological constraints on learning and behavior, animal cognition, and other related topics.
- Relates learning and motivational principles to the understanding and treatment of behavioral, affective, cognitive, and motivational disorders.
Offers an introduction to the basic learning and motivational principles that permit humans and animals to adapt effectively to a changing environment. Show more.
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