Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- What it means to learn.
- How stimuli and consequences affect behavior and mental processes.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Explain the complex procedures involved in classical and operant conditioning in simpler, yet still accurate, terms.
- Carry out multistep procedures using classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning to teach someone a new skill, analyzing the results in terms of research presented in the text.
- Decipher the meanings of jargon used with conditioning procedures.
- Analyze the more recent contributions of cognitive psychology, biopsychology, and social learning on behaviorist views of learning.
- Apply appropriate conditioning techniques to a real-world learning experience by modifying a behavior.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There are specific characteristics of learning.
- Behavior can be modified using conditioning or observational learning techniques.
- There are ways to identify classical and operant conditioning in real-world examples.
- There are conditions under which observational learning and modeling occurs best.
- There are limitations of conditioning techniques for teaching new skills.
- Cognition has a specific role in learning.
Vocabulary
- Law of Effect
- classical conditioning
- unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
- conditioned stimulus (CS)
- unconditioned response (UCR)
- conditioned response (CR)
- extinction
- spontaneous recovery
- generalization
- discrimination
- operant conditioning
- behaviorism
- consequence
- positive reinforcement
- negative reinforcement
- continuous reinforcement
- partial reinforcement
- variable ratio schedule
- variable interval schedule
- fixed ratio schedule
- fixed interval schedule
- instinctive drift
- primary reinforcer
- secondary reinforcer
- shaping
- chaining
- modeling
- observational learning
