PSYCH 186EIntroduction to Learning Theories
Psychology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to major learning theories including behaviorism, information processing, and Piagetian constructivism. Analysis of strengths and weaknesses of the theories, and study of their practical implications on teaching practices. For example, how instruction would be designed in a behaviorist perspective; and how that would differ from taking a constructivist approach. Study of how taking a specific theoretical perspective influences what one sees as a researcher or what one does as a teacher.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 10, 100A, 100B.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
PSYCH 186E
- PSYCH 10Introductory Psychology
- PSYCH 100APsychological Statistics
- COMPTNG 10AIntroduction to Programming
- STATS 10Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
- PSYCH 100BResearch Methods in Psychology
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 7 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.