Course Sequence
Date
Day
Assignment
8/24
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

8/29
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

Conditioned Reflexes (1927)

8/31
W

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

Pavlov (1927) Table of Contents

Falls (1998)

Bouton (2002)

9/5
M
Labor Day
9/7
W

Classical Conditioning II: Predicting the UCS and CS

Rescorla (1988)

Figure 2 from Rescorla (1988)

9/12
M

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

 

 

9/14
W

Classical Conditioning IV: Function of Conditioning

Domjan (2005)

Woods & Ramsey (2000)

Woods (1991)

Polivy & Herman (1987)

9/19
M

Catchup/Summary/Analysis

Addicted to Coke

9/21
W

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)

9/26
M

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

9/28
W

Harlow (1958)

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

 

10/3
M

The Prediction Issue: Premack's solution

Premack's Run-Drink apparatus

Timberlake & Farmer-Dougan (1991)

10/5
W

The Prediction Issue: Timberlake & Allison

Timberlake & Farmer-Dougan (1991)

Konorski et al. (1980)

10/10
M
Fall Break
10/12
W

Catchup/Summary/Review

10/17
M

TEST