Learning Process and Behavior Analysis
Note to applicants: The deadline for filing applications is January 1 for priority consideration for financial aid, and March 1 for regular admission.
The Learning Processes and Behavior Analysis Subprogram of the City University of New York Doctoral Program in Psychology, located at Queens College, offers doctoral students in Psychology training in the experimental and applied analysis of human and animal behavior, including behavioral neuroscience and behavioral pharmacology.
Students and faculty investigate a wide spectrum of behavioral processes, from environmental and neural perspectives, through lectures and experimental laboratory course work, advanced seminars, informal student- faculty discussions, practica, internships, and individual research projects.
Faculty and students publish regularly in peer-reviewed journals. Faculty members serve on the editorial board of major behavioral journals, and are strongly represented at major national and international conferences and organizations. Their current research interests include such topics as categorization and concept formation, language acquisition, affective behavior, behavioral assessment, human and animal timing, pattern recognition, stimulus control, behavioral community psychology, education and training of children with autism and other developmental disabilities, organizational behavior management, behavior-based safety, impulsivity, drug addiction and neural mechanisms of learning and motivation.
The Learning Processes and Behavior Analysis program is accredited in behavior analysis by the Association for Behavior Analysis and is license-eligible for New York State.