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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
 
  Sep 19, 2024
 
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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PSY 0405 - LEARNING AND MOTIVATION


Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
This course elucidates fundamental principles of learning and motivation as derived predominantly from animal research. Focus is given to the empirical and conceptual processes underlying the facilitation and suppression of behavior, e.g. primary and conditioned reinforcement, non-reinforcement, punishment and avoidance as well as the generalization and discrimination of these processes.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0101 or 0200
Course Attributes: Children’s Literature, DSAS Natural Science General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Science NonSeq.GE. Req.


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