Psychology 3214

Psychology 3214 Learning Calendar of Topics - Spring 2018
Classical Conditioning: Basics
Jan	17	W	Course Description & Requirements
	19	F	What is a reflex? A cat feeling harassed? A horse doing math? A parrot that understands language? Talk therapy for your pet? Koko's strange request -------------------------------------------------------------- Descartes: Inventor of the term Reflex (1596 - 1650) Descartes Philosophy A walk through the gardens The mixed nature of humankind Mind and body Pineal gland in action -------------------------------------------------------------- Marshall Hall: Definition of Reflex (1790 - 1857) Brain vs. Spinal Cord Voluntary vs. Involuntary Response Distinction -------------------------------------------------------------- Pavlov's Definition of Reflex B. F. Skinner (1931) Definition of Reflex (1904 - 1990) Pupillary Reflex example -------------------------------------------------------------- A Current Animal Cognition Controversy and more and Descartes
	22	M	The Effect Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849 - 1936) Pavlov is awarded Nobel Prize Pavlov's Special Lab Pavlov in Lab Dog in apparatus Kymograph Records Textbook: 107-114 -------------------------------------------------------------- The Pavlov Institute of Physiology Pictures of Pavlov's Dogs RadioLab podcast on Beaumont and St. Martin [trivia] Pavlov's Steak [humor] Pavlov's Brother
	24	W	Acquisition Eyeblink Conditioning Label Classical Conditioning Exercise Label Acquisition Procedure Exercise -------------------------------------------------------------- Bad CC Diagram Textbook: 119-123
	26	F	Extinction Spontaneous Recovery Effect (Rescorla, 2004) Latent Inhibition Efffect Renewal Effect Textbook: 133-137
	29	M	Inhibition Table of Contents from Pavlov (1927) Textbook: 158-160
	31	W	Watson & Rayner (1920) Biographical Info On John B. Watson John B. Watson JBW's House JBW at Furman Watson and Rayner What happened to Little Albert? Current views
Feb	2	F	Application assignment Example Ads: Old Style vs. New Style
	5	M	Application assignment due
	7	W	Question & Answer - Review [ Study Guide ]
	9	F	Test 1
			Test 1 Results
Classical Conditioning: Modern Work & Explanations
	12	M	Pavlov's Cortical Explanation Lecture 17 & the Shenger-Krestovnikova Experiment Textbook: 140-142
	14	W	What makes a good CS? Robert Rescorla Contiguity vs. Contingency Textbook: 56-57
	16	F	What makes a good UCS? Pavlov's Answer - Biological Potency the Blocking Effect & Kamin's Answer Textbook: 154-156 -------------------------------------------------------------- Leo Kamin & Harvard in the 1950s
	19	M	Prediction of Conditioning Effects Rescorla - Wagner Model Textbook: 176-179
	21	W	Rescorla - Wagner Model Successes & Failures
			Comparator Hypothesis Textbook:
	23	F	Predicting the Response Solomon's Opponent Process Model General Pattern of Response Dynamics of Pattern - Early Dynamics of Pattern - Many Encounters Early vs. Late -------------------------------------------------------------- Opponent responses in heroin use Siegel & Ellsworth (1986) *Application assignment* -------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Zener Zener Cards Shuttle Box Apparatus Textbook: 101-107, 168-175
	26	M	*Application assignment due* Textbook: 168-175
			Other "opponent process" cases Rebound headaches Nasal Spray addiction Tachyphylaxis Rebound Effects Is this a good way to deal with antidepressant "poop out"? The story of someone who is Addicted to Coke
	28	W	Question & Answer - Review [ Study Guide ]
Mar	2	F	Test 2
			Test 2 Results
	5	M	Spring Break
	7	W
	9	F
Operant Conditioning: "Law of Effect" Basics
	12	M	Thorndike introduces the Law of Effect Charles Darwin - Continuity Among Species - Darwin's Finches Comparative Psychology - George Romanes argues by Anecdote Edward Lee Thorndike tests the mental continuity argument Example Puzzle Box More Actual Puzzle Boxes Thorndike's Law of Effect Textbook: 211-213 -------------------------------------------------------- Introduction to Animal Intelligence by E. L. Thorndike Examples of Quick Evolutionary Changes Italian Wall Lizard Brown Anole Lizard Galapagos Finch
	14	W	Alternative explanations of the Puzzle Box results J. B. Watson Guthrie and Horton Puzzle Box Cat B Cat G Edwin Guthrie's alternative Brian Wansink - Mindless Eating Textbook: 325-326
	16	F	Three approaches to a "Law of Effect" Hull - Drive reduction S-R Diagram and Label Terms Example Postulate Textbook: 277-279
	19	M	A Problem for Hull - Harry Harlow Harlow's General Procedures Harlow's Results Harlow (1958) Fig. 5 Harlow (1958) Fig. 6 Another Problem for Hull? Meehl - Transituational Law of Effect - Meehl (1950) Textbook:
	21	W	Skinner - Empirical Law of Effect Positive Reinforcement Tutorial Negative Reinforcement University Skinner (1953) - Empirical Law of Effect Example circularity problem Brief biography of Skinner by his daughter Another biography of Skinner by Howard Rachlin Skinner In His Own Words Textbook: 213-232
	23	F	Empirical Law of Effect Exercises Label the effect #1 Label the effect #2 Label the effect #3 Label the effect #4 Label the effect #5 Label the effect #6 Label the effect #7 Label the effect #8 Label the effect #9 Label the effect #10 Nutraloaf: Food as a punisher? Homer's problem *Application assignment*
	26	M	Origin of New Responses Skinner - Shaping by successive approximations Girl with Violin Skinner's Minnesota Lab Pigeons Playing Ping Pong Operant Conditioning Chamber -------------------------------------------------------------- Skinner Shaping a Response [Warning: 6 Mb file] Training Rats as Bomb Detectors (The Video) Pouched Rat at Work Charles Mingus Trains a Cat to Use a Toilet Panhandle Story Skinner (1951) How to Teach Animals -------------------------------------------------------------- *Application assignment due*
	28	W	Question & Answer - Review [ Study Guide ]
	30	F	Test 3
			Test 3 Results
Apr	2	M	State Holiday - No Class
Operant Conditioning: Modern Work & Theory
	4	W	Reinforcement schedules Operant Chamber Operation of a Cumulative Recorder Real Cumulative Recorder Bank of Cumulative Recorders --------------------------------------------- Development of Skinner's Method Skinner 1956 Figure 5 Skinner 1956 Figure 8 Skinner 1956 Figure 12 Textbook: 255-265
	6	F	Reinforcement schedules, cont. 4 Schedule Performances --------------------------------------------- Skinner (1960) Pigeons in a Pelican Nose Cone Outside Nose Cone Inside
	9	M	Reinforcer "Value" - I Pigeon in Operant Chamber Multiple Schedules - Behavioral Contrast Textbook: 313-317
			Reinforcer "Value" - II Concurrent schedules Matching effect vs. Matching Law Richard Herrnstein (left) and James Q. Wilson Herrnstein (1961) Results Textbook: 374-379
			Reinforcer "Value" - III Temporal Discounting & Self-Control Howard Rachlin Temporal Discounting Function Self-Control Problem Self Control Problem 2 Textbook: 396-404
	11	W	Into the future... Premack Reinforcement Principle Premack's RunDrink Apparatus Premack: Reward and Punishment vs Freedom Textbook: 279-281
	17	F	Premack's Analysis of Punishment Textbook: 357-358
	20	M	Timberlake & Allison - Response Deprivation Theory Textbook: 281-283
	27	M	Application Assignment
	29	W	Discussion of Application Assignment
Dec	1	F	Questions & Answers - Review [ Study Guide ]
			Classical vs. Operant - Identifying & Interactions Breland & Breland (1961) IQ Zoo The Tic-Tac-Toe Chicken BFS vs the Chicken Handshaping vs. Autoshaping Long Box Autoshaping Negative Autoshaping Why is the child crying? Textbook: 462-466
	4	M	Test 4
			Test 4 Results
	6	W	Discuss Final Exam Final Exam Time is Monday, Dec 11, 8 - 10:30