We briefly discussed Albert Bandura’s Bobo Doll experiment previously. It’s an important experiment that demonstrated the power of Observational Learning.

Important (and disturbing) experiment: Meet John Watson:

15_LittleAlbertNewTwist

You’ll have a little test/quiz probably Wednesday, May 23. The following topics are fair game for the test. We can review/discuss on Tuesday, May 22:

• Learning (definition, conditioned vs. observational, 4 processes critical to observational learning)
• Classical Conditioning (Pavlov’s dogs, unconditioned stimulus & response, conditioned stimulus & response, stimulus geralization, extinction, reconditioning, spontaneous recovery)
• Operant Conditioning (BF Skinner’s Skinner Box, definition, uses, examples)
  negative/positive punishment & negative/positive reinforcement
• Schedules of reinforcement/punishment
• John Watson & Little Albert
• Bandura’s Bobo Doll experiment

11_ReinforcementSchedulesInfo

09_OperantPunishmentPractice (fillable form)

10_SchedulesofReinforcement (Word)

Google Doc

10_SchedulesofReinforcement (.pdf)

There will be a short quiz covering Learning (types, forms, conditioning, etc.) next week, probably Wednesday, May 23. Make sure that you understand the concepts covered so far, and don’t forget to read that section of the text book and answer the guiding questions that I gave you.

07_Negative-PositiveReinforcement (fillable form)

08_ReinforcementvsPunishment (Word)

Google Doc

08_ReinforcementvsPunishment (.pdf)

Let’s see how well you’ve been paying attention. Please fill this out and show me how much you already know about Classical and Operant Conditioning!

04_ClassicalConditioningPractice (fillable form) (download and open in Adobe Reader to fill out)

05_ClassicalConditioningPractice2 (Word)

Google Docs version

05_ClassicalConditioningPractice2 (.pdf)

06_ClassicalCondPhobias (download and open in Adobe Reader to fill out)

03_LearningInfo_web

03_Learning (Word)

Google Doc

03_Learning (.pdf)

As usual, there is some great information in our text book about this next section of the course. I would highly recommend that you read this section. There are some questions that should help guide you to make note of the important information in this section. We will go over some of this in class over the next while.

02_LearningText (text book pages)

02_Learning(Word)

Google Doc

02_Learning(.pdf)