Course Sequence
Date
Day
Assignment
8/25
W

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?

Descartes
Descartes Philosophy

A walk through the gardens

The mixed nature of humankind

Mind and body

Pineal gland in action

A Current Animal Cognition Controversy

Pavlov (1927) Lecture I

The legacy of Descarte's mind-body dualism

8/30
M

Pavlov the Surgeon

Pavlov is awarded Nobel Prize

Pavlov's Lab

The classical conditioning effect.

Dog in apparatus

Technician operates apparatus

Acquisition procedures and effects.

Kymograph record

9/1
W

Do we need a concept of inhibition?

Pavlov (1927) Table of Contents

Falls (1998)

Bouton (2002)

9/6
M

Classical Conditioning I: Predicting the UCS and CS

Rescorla (1988)

Figure 1

 

9/8
W

Classical Conditioning II: 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

 

 

9/13
M

Classical Conditioning III: Attitudes and awareness

Staats & Staats (1957)

Staats & Staats (1958)

De Houwer, Thomas, & Baeyens (2001)

Lovibond & Shanks (2002)

9/15
W

Catchup/Summary

Addicted to Coke

9/20
M

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)

9/22
W

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

Hull (1931)

Hull (1943) Postulates

Hull (1943) System

9/27
M

The Prediction Issue: Two classic solutions

Meehl (1950)

Skinner (1953)

Positive Reinforcement Tutorial

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

Label the effect #1

Label the effect #2

Label the effect #3

Label the effect #4

Label the effect #5

Food as a punisher

Biography of Skinner by Howard Rachlin

 

9/29
W

The Prediction Issue: Premack's solution

Premack's Run-Drink apparatus

Timberlake & Farmer-Dougan (1991)

10/4
M

The Prediction Issue: Timberlake & Allison

Timberlake & Farmer-Dougan (1991)

Konorski et al. (1980)

10/6
W

Catchup/Summary/Review

10/11
M

TEST