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PSYCH 186CCognitive Science Laboratory: Psychophysical Theories and Methods

Psychology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Designed for junior/senior departmental majors. Lectures and laboratory work that examine perceptual measurement procedures (psychophysical methods) and cognitive processing and decision models on which procedures are based, with particular emphasis on signal detection theory and its applications.

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Requisites: courses 10, 85, 100A, 100B.

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  • PSYCH 10
  • PSYCH 85
  • PSYCH 100A
  • PSYCH 100B

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PSYCH 186C

  • PSYCH 10Introductory Psychology
  • PSYCH 85Introduction to Cognitive Science
  • PSYCH 100APsychological Statistics
    • PSYCH 10Introductory Psychologyanother path to it
    • COMPTNG 10AIntroduction to Programming
    • STATS 10Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
  • PSYCH 100BResearch Methods in Psychology
    • PSYCH 10Introductory Psychologyanother path to it

4 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 8 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

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  • Spring 2026
  • Fall 2026
  • Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.