The psychology of learning encompasses a vast body of research that generally focuses on classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning.

Democritus wrote about the influence of a person's home life on learning in the 5th century B.C., and Plato and Aristotle discussed educational psychology topics like: Individualized education ...

In rigorous tests, Centaur consistently outperformed traditional cognitive models, including Prospect Theory and ...

Common coursework for a master’s in educational psychology includes human development, research and analysis, applied learning behaviors, consultation in special education, learning across the ...

While the underlying mechanism is unclear, neuroscientists theorize saying something out loud separates and distinguishes it ...

Sleep helps consolidate information into memory. But not everything we learn gets strengthened. Sleep prioritizes what we ...

The strength of certain neural connections can predict how well someone can learn math, and mildly electrically stimulating ...

This Collection welcomes original research articles on machine learning applications in psychology. Studies that seek to identify challenges that often arise when applying machine learning ...

When Eli Billings (BA ’25) first stepped onto the University of Denver campus, he wasn’t sure what he wanted to study—but he ...

Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology dedicated to studying how people think. The cognitive perspective in psychology focuses on how the interactions of thinking, emotion, creativity ...

We chose five popular topics in psychology: introductory materials, psychological science, brain and behavior, social psychology, and therapy. The learning activities include lectures, discussion, ...