PSY 451A Learning and Memory

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PSY 451A Learning and Memory

Science and human behavior

What is an explanation?

Teleological explanations

Forming explanations

Why do we want to understand?

Roots of learning theory

Philosophical history of learning theory

And more philosophical history

The rise of associationism: John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

The rise of associationism: Mill

Biological bases of learning theory

Challenges to learning theory

The substitutability test

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