Learning Conditioning and Behavioural Analysis 2500-EN_O_16
CONDITIONING AND BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
Monika Suchowierska, Ph.D.
monika.suchowierska@gmail.com
The major focus of the course is on basic processes in conditioning and behavior analysis. The lectures will concentrate on historical and recent theoretical and experimental analyses of behavior, with discussion and the applications and implications of the work.
The required reading for the course is:
Pierce, W. D., & Cheney, C. D. (2004). Behavior analysis and learning (3rd ed.). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
Topics
I. Philosophy and basic methodology of the experimental analysis of behavior and applied behavior analysis. B. F. Skinner's radical behaviorism. Tactics of behavioral research (single subject experimental designs).
Pierce and Cheney: pages 1-11, 16-23, 36-49, 358-369.
Key words: radical behaviorism, determinism, experimental analysis of behavior, applied behavior analysis, conceptual analysis of behavior, ABAB experimental design, direct and systematic replication.
II. Pavlovian (respondent) conditioning. Procedures, phenomena, variables, theory (contiguity, contingency, Rescorla-Wagner model), applications (conditioned suppresion, taste aversion, drug tolerance).
Pierce and Cheney: pages 58-79, 195-198.
Key words: conditioned stimulus, conditioned response, unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, discrimination, continuity, contingency, blocking, overshadowing, Rescorla-Wagner model, tolerance, conditioned emotional response, conditioned suppresion, taste aversion learning.
III. Operant (instrumental) conditioning.
Contingences of reinforcement, schedules of reinforcement, and choice.
Pierce and Cheney: pages 83-93, 124-138, 233-257.
Key words: law of effect, positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, negative punishment, discrimination, generalization, acquisition, extinction, discriminative stimulus, operant behavior, continuous reinforcement (CRF), fixed ratio schedule (FR), variable ratio schedule (VR), fixed interval schedule (FI), variable interval schedule (VI), concurrent ratio schedules, concurrent interval schedule, changover delay (COD), the matching law, relative rate of response, relative rate of reinforcement.
IV. Aversive control of behavior.
Pierce and Cheney: pages 154-171.
Key words: punishment, positive punishment, negative punishment, negative reinforcement, escape, avoidance, effective punishment, shock frequency, learned helplessness.
V. Stimulus control and conditioned reinforcement.
Pierce and Cheney: pages 208-219, 270-273, 286-290.
Key words: differential reinforcement, controling stimulus, discriminative stimulus, extinction stimulus, multiple schedule, simultaneous discrimination, successive discrimination, discrimination index, behavioral contrast, positive behavioral contrast, negative behavioral contrast, chain schedules, conditioned reinforcer, unconditioned reinforcer, homogeneous chains, heterogeneous chain, backward chaining, generalized conditioned reinforcer, token economy.