Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Define learning and distinguish learning from reflexes and fixed-action patterns.
• Identify the components of classical and operant conditioning.
• Identify the influences and practical applications of operant and classical conditioning toward behavior change.
• Distinguish between association principles and cognitive principles of learning and discuss the relative strengths and weaknesses of each.
• Describe the information-processing model of learning and memory.
• Explain the organization of long term memory from a biological and information-processing model.
• Discuss the concept and implications of constructive and reconstructive memory.
• Describe the physiological processes in storage of memories.
• Identify the components of language system and identify prevailing theories related to language development.
• Discuss the principles and applications regarding problem solving, reasoning and decision making.
• Compare and contrast the research methods of cognitive and association theorists.