Psychology 5150 - Fall 2007
Course Sequence
Date
Day
Assignment
10/16
T

Opening Class

Class Requirements

Concept(s) of the Reflex

A cat feeling harassed?

A horse doing math?

A parrot that understands language?

Talk therapy for your pet?

Koko's Strange Request

Descartes
Descartes Philosophy

A walk through the gardens

The mixed nature of humankind

Mind and body

Pineal gland in action

The legacy of Descarte's mind-body dualism

More on Alex

A Current Animal Cognition Controversy

Alex talks on PBS

RIP Alex!

A Skeptical Analysis of Nonhuman Language Acquisition

Pavlov's Definition of Reflex

Pavlov (1927) Lecture I

10/18
R

The classical conditioning effect

Pavlov the Surgeon

Pavlov is awarded Nobel Prize

Pavlov's Lab

Dog in apparatus (Yerkes & Morgulis, 1909)

Technician operates apparatus

Acquisition procedures and effects.

Kymograph

Kymograph record

Conditioned Reflexes (1927)

10/23
T

Classical Conditioning I: Do we need a concept of inhibition?

Pavlov (1927) Table of Contents

Falls (1998)

Bouton (2002)

10/25
R

Classical Conditioning II: Predicting the UCS and CS

Rescorla (1988)

Figure 2 from Rescorla (1988)

10/30
T

Classical Conditioning III: Predicting the response

Siegel & Ellsworth (1986)

Siegel (1988)

Siegel & Ramos (2002)

Solomon (1980)

Richard Solomon

General Pattern of Reaction

Early Pattern in Opponent Process Model

Later Pattern in Opponent Process Model

Overall Pattern

Other "opponent process" examples

Rebound headaches

Nasal Spray addiction

 

11/1
R

Classical Conditioning IV: Function of Conditioning

Woods (1991)

AICR Recommendations

Domjan (2005)

Woods & Ramsey (2000)

Polivy & Herman (1987)

Catchup/Summary/Analysis

Addicted to Coke

Study Guide for "Addicted to Coke"

 

11/6
T

Test 1

11/8
R

Thorndike codifies the Law of Effect

Thorndike (1898)

Thorndike (1911)

Chance (1999)

Hearst (1999)

Skinner (1981)

Dogs as People 1

Dogs as People 2

Dogs as People 3

William James House (95 Irving St)

11/13
T

J. B. Watson and E. R. Guthrie against the Law of Effect

C. L. Hull for the Law of Effect.

Watson (1924)

Guthrie (1952)

Guthrie's Cat B

Guthrie's Cat G

Guthrie's Learning Principle

Clark Hull

Hull (1931)

Hull (1943) Postulates

Hull (1943) System

Brian Wansink - Mindless Eating

Wansink et al. (2005) - Bottomless Soup Bowl

11/15
R

Harlow (1958) article

Harry Harlow

Harlow's Basic Procedure

Harlow's Results:

Figure 5

Figure 6

After Hull

The Prediction Issue: Two classic solutions

Paul Meehl - Meehl (1950)

 

B. F. Skinner - Skinner (1953)

Skinner (1950) - Are Theories of Learning Necessary?

 

Label the effect #1

Label the effect #2

Label the effect #3

Label the effect #4

Label the effect #5

 

Positive Reinforcement Tutorial

Food as a punisher

Example Token Economy in a School

Biography of Skinner by Howard Rachlin

 

11/20
T

Skinner in the Lab

Shaping

A visit to Natural Sciences 114
[Warning: 6 Mb QT file]

Operant Chamber

Girl with Violin

Reinforcement Schedules

Cumulative Recorder

Choice

Herrnstein (1961) results

Herrnstein (1961)

Behavioral Contrast

Reynolds (1961)

Shaping in the field - Hero Rats

11/22
R
Yummy in my Tummy !!
11/27
T

The Prediction Issue: Premack's solution

Premack's Run-Drink apparatus

Timberlake & Farmer-Dougan (1991)

11/29
R

The Prediction Issue: Timberlake & Allison

Response Deprivation Theory

Response Deprivation Theory practice

Timberlake & Farmer-Dougan (1991)

Konarski et al. (1980)

12/4
T

Catch Up / Summary

 

12/7
F

Test 2