1. Terminology is important. Make sure that you understand the difference between an activity being reinforced and an activity being a reinforcer. Make sure that you understand the difference between the instrumental activity and the contingent activity.

2. Be able to define how FR, VR, FI, and VI schedules of reinforcement operate.

3. Be able to recognize and describe the patterns of responding that develop under FR, VR, FI, and VI schedules of reinforcement.

4. Be able to recognize and describe the patterns of responding that develop under FR, VR, FI, and VI schedules of reinforcement as they would appear on a cumulative record.

5. Be able to identify the schedule of reinforcement in operation in concrete situations and make predictions about the expected patterns of behavior.

6. Understand Premack's analysis of behavior in the baseline and be able to apply Premack's reinforcement principle and his punishment principle. (Make sure that you can distinguish instrumental and contingent activity.)

7. It is all about the baseline. Construct a hypothetical baseline of 4 activities for a boy. Set up contingencies that should work and should not work according to Premack's reinforcement principle and his punishment principle.

8. It is all about the Law of Effect. Know the general approach of Hull, Skinner, Meehl, and Premack to the issue of prediction of whether and why an event/activity will function as a reinforcer. And don't forget about Guthrie's alternative approach.

9. Understand how the technique of shaping by successive approximations works.