BASIC LEARNING PROCESSES 


  • Learning: Behavior & Cognition, 2nd ed.
    Davis A Lieberman, Univ of Stirling, Scotland
    1993 | Brooks/Cole Publishing Company;
    Pacific Grove, California
  • not in library
  • for PS211 Learning Behavior & Cognition
NOTES
PART I: Introduction
ch1) Some basic assumptions
ch2) An introduction to associative learning
PART II: Classical Conditioning
ch3) Foundations of Conditioning
ch4) Principles & Applications
ch5) Theories of Conditioning
PART III: Instrumental Conditioning
ch6) Reinforcement
ch7) Response Suppression
ch8) Applications
ch9) Theories of Reinforcement: the law of effect revisited
PART IV: Theoretical Processes in Associative Learning
ch10) Learning in an Evolutionary Context
ch11) What is Learned? Associative versus Cognitive Theories of Learning
ch12) How is is Learned? As Information-Processing Model
ch13) Is Associative Learning simple or complex?
SUMMARY NOTES

  • Psychology of Learning and Behavior, 4th ed.
    Barry Schwartz, Steven J. Robbins
    1995 | Norton & Company, New York
  • not in library
  • more organized context to one used in class
  • Learning: Schwartz contents

  • Hypnosis: for the Seriously Curious
    Kenneth S. Bower, UW
    1983 (orig 1976) | Norton and co. NY
  • not in library
  • Hypnosis contents



PS100 LEARNING
ch4) Learning | Review ch4
Habituation
Classic Conditioning
  • Pavlov and the conditioned reflex | major phenomenon of classical conditioning | extensions of classical conditioning
Instrumental Conditioning
  • Thorndike and the Law of Effect | Skinner and Operant Behaviour | major phenomenon of instrumental conditioning
Cognitive learning
  • cognitive view of classical conditioning | cognitive view of instrumental conditioning | biological constraints of learning
Complex Cognition of Animals
  • cognitive maps | insightful behavior


EMOTION & MOTIVATION using OPERANT LEARNING 
notes & instructor: Dr. Vern Schaeffer
EMOTION (PS207)
Emotion table of contents
emotion notes
emotion summary notes
MOTIVATION (PS217)
Motivation table of contents
motivation notes
motivation summary notes
motivation table of contents (ps217)
I) introduction
  • Positivist - Skinner (Skinner: ch1-8)
  • Experiential - Mowrer
III) other experiential models
  • psychoanalysis
  • humanism
  • attritbution (see also sport psych)
IV) motivation of negative behavior
  • defensiveness (Shaeffer paper | Dyer article)
  • violence begins at home (Miller)
  • “micromotives and macromotives”
V) implications fo the experiential model
  • the self
  • freedom
  • values
VI) changing motives

TRAUMA & SUBCONSCIOUS
  • For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
    Alice Miller
    1990 (orig 1983) | Noonday Press, NY
  • For Your Own Good CONTENTS
  • not in library
  • Man's Search for Meaning
    Victor E. Frankl
    1984 | Washington Square Press, NY
  • Victor Frankl CONTENTS
  • not in library



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