Text Box: PSY 451A Learning and Memory 3 credit hours Spring Semester, 2007 at Houghton College 10 - 10:50a.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Paul Young, Department of Psychology Office: Chamberlain 324 Phone: 567-9308 or Ext. 3080 e-mail: paul.young@houghton.edu Office hours: 9 - 9:50a.m. MWF, 10:00-10:50a.m. TR, or by appointment. Please feel welcome to drop in whenever I am in my office.

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Text Box: PowerPoint Slides Set 1. Metatheory, theory, explanation. Philosophical, biological roots of learning theory. Set 2. Psychological perspectives on learning and memory. A summary overview. Set 3. Classical conditioning: Fundamental principles and arguments. Set 4. Classical conditioning: Advanced phenomena and arguments. Set 5. Instrumental conditioning: Principles and theories. Set 6. Consequences--rewards and punishers--and contingency analysis. Set 7. Transient memories Set 8. Working memory activation. Set 9. Acquisition of memory Set 10. Retention, forgetting, interference, and repression. Set 11. Retrieving memories, recognition and recall, and familiarity effects. Set 12. Skill acquisition and usage. Set 13. Induction learning: Concepts, categories, and language. Set 14. Learning in education. Set 15. Behavioral self-control strategies. Prof's schedule| Syllabus |PowerPoints | Study Sheets 1 2 3| Linked sites | APA format
   
 
 

 

Text Box: First posted 9 January, 1998. Last updated 10 January, 2007. Copyright Paul D. Young