Wednesday, April 21, 2010

April 21/22

Journal: How would your mom/dad describe your personality? How would your best friend?

Activities:
-Rorschach inkblots
-Personality powerpoint
-Personality tests

Monday, April 19, 2010

April 19/20

Journal: What is your favorite season? Why?

Activities:
Review read
Review for test
Test
Turn in packets

Thursday, April 15, 2010

"Learning" Test Review

-What is Classical Conditioning (UCS, UCR, NS, CS, CR)

-What is Operant Conditioning (acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, discrimination, shaping)

-Reinforcement
Positive: Adding something = behavior increasing
Negative: Taking away something aversive = behavior increasing


-Punishment
Positive: Adding something = behavior decreasing
Negative: Taking way something = behavior decreasing

-Schedules of reinforcement (continuous vs partial)
fixed interval (3 min, 3 min, 3 min)
fixed ration (1:3, 1:3, 1:3)
variable interval (4 min, 2 min, 9 min, 1 min)
variable ration (1:5, 1:9, 1:1)

Albert Bandura:
Ivan Pavlov:
BF Skinner:
John B. Watson:

Operant and classical conditioning ignore cognitive processes

Modeling:
Pro-social behavior:
Latent Learning:

Look over the rest of your notes, but these are the main ideas. If you have any questions leave a comment and I'll get back to you. Good luck!!!!!

April 15/16

Journal:

Activities:
-pg 212
-Complete handouts
-Test Review

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

April 12/13

Journal: None

Activities:
Officer Robison

If you were absent write a half-page description of how you would use operant conditioning to train an animal.

Friday, April 2, 2010

April 2

Journal: How do you learn new information? Explain

Activities:
-Observational learning (smoothies)
-Learning styles quiz