Introduction to Psychology: Unit 4

Theories of Learning
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PowerPoint Resources:

• Preliminary Material
  • Aristotle's Laws of Mental Association
    • Contiguity Defined
    • The $100,000 Pyramid Game Show~Wikipedia
    • The Password Game Show~Wikipedia
  • Spinal pain reflex
• Classical Conditioning
  • Unconditioned Stimuli-Unconditioned Reflex Examples
    • The Babinski Reflex
  • Pavlov demonstrating Classical Conditioning and Pavlov in his Lab
  • Classical Conditioning Experimental Arrangement
    • Yerkes and Morgulis' original description (1909)
  • Classical Conditioning, the Basic Model~1
    • Classical Conditioning, the Basic Model~2
    
  • Acquisition, Extinction, & Spontaneous Recovery Graphic
    • Acquisition, Extinction, & Spontaneous Recovery Explained
  • Stimulus Generalization Gradient and another, and another
  • Higher Order Conditioning
  • Illustrative CS-UCS Temporal Pairings
  • Experimental Neurosis
    • Experimental Neurosis Explained
  • Classical Conditioning & Advertising
  • Brainwashing~the ORIGINAL 1962 Movie: The Manchurian Candidate
  • "Little Albert" and the White Rat
    • Little Albert and the White Rat Photos
    • Watson's & Raynor's account of "Little Albert"
    • Watson Biography -from Furman University's Psychology
      Department, Watson's alma mater
    • Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It-by John Broadus Watson
      • Glossary to the above by Christopher D. Green
  • "Little Peter" and the Rabbit
    • "The Case of Peter"-by Mary Cover Jones
  • Illustrative Test Anxiety Hierarchy for Desensitization Training
    • Systematic Desensitization ~ 1
  • Classical Conditioning Terms

• Instrumental Learning/Conditioning & Edward Lee Thorndike(1874-1949)
  • New Insights into Chimpanzees, Tools, and Termites...© American Naturalist, 11/2004
    Read the Full Article Offline or read it with links and view the videos here.
    A Chimp Making Tools~The Movie
  • Tool Making Crows--THE WEB SITE/ THE RESEARCH
    & Betty Makes a Hook--THE MOVIE

  • Gorilla Tool Usage from Public Library of Science Online© ~ Fall, 2005: BIOLOGY Section
  • Cat in a Puzzle Box~1/Cat in the Puzzle Box~2 -a different kind of learning
  • Thorndike's Law's of Learning~Summary
    • E. L. Thorndike on the "Laws of Behavior"
    • Introduction to E. L. Thorndike's work on "Animal Intelligence"

• Operant Conditioning & Burrhus Frederic Skinner(1904-1990)
  • Classical versus Operant Conditioning
  • Psychology's A, B, C's
    • Classical versus Operant Conditioning Graphic~1
    • Classical versus Operant Conditioning Graphic~2
    • Positive versus Negative & Primary versus Secondary Reinforcers
    • Reinforcement vs. Punishment
    • Aspirin Taking in Escape or Avoidance Learning
    
  • Cumulative Recorder & the Operant Chamber, Key Features
    Cumulative Recorder~2
    • B. F. Skinner's Publishing Cumulative Record
  • Schedules of Reinforcement Cumulative Records Compared-1
    • Schedules of Reinforcement Cumulative Records Compared-2-another graphic
    • Schedules of Reinforcement Explained
  • Schedules of Reinforcement Everyday Examples
    • Another Slots Shot
    • 2002 Statistics on Foxwood's and the Mohegan Sun & their Slots Profits
    • October, 2004 Slots Profits Update
  • Shaping Animal & Human Behavior
    • Naturally Occuring Behavior Shaping in the Wild
    • Meet Sniffy~the Virtual Rat
  • Key Operant Conditioning Terms Sheet_1
    • Key Operant Conditioning Terms Sheet_2
  • Skinner:A Biography-by C. George Boeree, Shippensburg University
    • Walden Two
    • Twin Oaks "Intentional Community"
    • Is it Utopia Yet? ~ by Kit Kinkade
    • Where Twin Oaks is Located
    • Skinner on TIME in the 1970s(45.3K)
    • Autobiography of B. F. Skinner
    • The B. F. Skinner Foundation
    • Superstition in the pigeon
  • Positive Reinforcement Tutorial

• Observational Learning Graphic

Key terms, names, & concepts, dates, etc. for this unit.

An Animal Trainer's Guide to Classical and Operant Conditioning The University of South Florida Behavior Analysis Glossary

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