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LEARNING PSYC 2500-02 Spring 2017 Tue Thu 5:00-6:15 ARJ 143

Eric Lundquist Office: BOUS 136 Phone: (860) 486-4084 Office Hours: Mon Wed 5:30-6:30 and by appointment

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Web Page: http://web9.uits.uconn.edu/lundquis/learning.html

READING:

1. REQUIRED: Mazur, James E. (2006). Learning And Behavior (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. (ISBN: 0-13-193163-6) [7th ed. also works] 2. REQUIRED: On-Line Readings and Reserve Readings (to be announced) 3. OPTIONAL: Papers linked at http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/

GRADING:

Two Quizzes: 30% approximately 5th and 12th weeks of class (Thu 2/16, Thu 4/13) NOTE: QUIZ 2 is a TAKE-HOME quiz that will be posted soon after 4/13 and will be due about 4/20; details to appear on web page Midterm: 35% approximately 10th week of class (Thu 3/30) Final: 35% TBA AS SCHEDULED BY THE REGISTRAR MON 5/1 - SAT 5/6

READINGS (subject to expansion and revision) CH.1: The Psychology Of Learning And Behavior * pp. 5-6, "The Major Components Of Scientific Theories" * pp. 11, 13-16, "Behavioral and Cognitive Approaches to Learning," "The Emphasis on External Events" CH.2: Simple Ideas, Simple Associations, And Simple Cells * pp. 19-23 the Empiricist / Associationist tradition; (Rationalist / Nativist tradition covered in lecture) * OPTIONAL: Ebbinghaus's human memory experiments pp. 23-27 * omit pp. 27-37 on physiology CH.3: Innate Behavior Patterns And Habituation -- entire chapter; note highlights and exceptions: * reflex p. 40; tropism p. 41: kineses p. 41 and taxes p. 42; fixed-action patterns pp. 42- 44; reaction chains pp. 44-45 * habituation: pp. 47-51; omit pp. 51-53 on "Physiological Mechanisms Of Habituation"; continue with pp. 53-59 on the "Opponent-Process Theory" CH.4: Basic Principles Of Classical Conditioning -- entire chapter; note highlights and exceptions: * omit "Aversive Counterconditioning" and "Treatment of Nocturnal Enuresis" pp. 84-87; continue with chapter summary on p. 87-88 CH.5: Theories And Research On Classical Conditioning -- entire chapter; note highlights and exceptions: * omit "Mackintosh's Theory Of Attention" and "Comparator Theories Of Conditioning" pp. 97-99 * continue with pp. 99-100 on "Associations In First-Order Conditioning" and "Associations In Second-Order Conditioning" * omit "Associations Involving Contextual Stimuli," "CS-CS Associations," and "Occasion Setting" pp. 100-102 * pp. 102-112 "Biological Constraints On Classical Conditioning" through "Conditioned Opponent Theories" * omit "Physiological Research On Classical Conditioning" pp. 112-116; continue with chapter summary p. 116-117 * Index of Classical Conditioning Phenomena: Acquisition [61-62, 68-69] Extinction [69-70] Spontaneous Recovery [70-71] Inhibition / Excitation [70-71] Disinhibition [71] Rapid Reacquisition [72] Pavlov's Stimulus Substitution Theory [65-66] S-S and S-R Associations [66-68] - Rescorla's Devaluation and Revaluation Procedures Higher-Order Conditioning [78-79] Sensory Preconditioning Conditioned Inhibition [72-73] - Retardation and Summation Tests Latent Inhibition / CS Pre-Exposure Effect [96-97] US Pre-Exposure Effect Sensitization [103] (increased responsiveness to ANY stimulus after presentation of a strong US) Generalization and Discrimination [73-74] Role of the response in modern interpretations of classical conditioning may really just be as a dependent variable to measure strength of CS-US association (or of any S-S association); CR and UR as such aren't necessarily interesting Psychoneuroimmunology (Conditioning of the Immune System) [80-81] Watson's "Little Albert" Experiment on Phobias [82] Systematic Desensitization [81-84] Drug Tolerance, Withdrawal, Paradoxical Overdose [108-111] Conditioned Opponent Theories [111-112] - Sometimes Opponent Process (SOP) Pavlov's Assumptions of Contiguity and Arbitrariness / Equipotentiality [102-103] Taste Aversion Learning / Biological Constraints on Learning / Belongingness [102-105] - Garcia's Experiment / The Garcia Effect [103-105] - Wilcoxon, Dragoin, and Kral's Experiment [105] - Hospital Anorexia (Taste Aversions in Chemotherapy) Rescorla's Contingency Experiments (CS-US Correlations) [76-78] - Experiment on Dogs Receiving Forward, Backward, and Mixed Conditioning - Experiment on Rats Receiving Same Contiguity but Different Contingencies of Tone and Shock Blocking and Overshadowing [90-94] Rescorla-Wagner Model of Learning On Individual Conditioning Trials [90-96] Overexpectation Effect [94-95] CH.6: Basic Principles Of Operant Conditioning * "The Law Of Effect" pp. 118-122; "The Research Of B.F. Skinner" pp. 130-132 * pp. 123-125: superstitious behaviors and Staddon and Simmelhag's(1971) interpretation in terms of interim and terminal behaviors (note relation to autoshaping / sign-tracking experiment on pp. 138-142) * pp. 125-130: shaping (but omit pp. 129-130 on "percentile schedules") * p. 126 conditioned reinforcers * p. 133-134 generalized reinforcers * p. 134-136 chaining * pp. 136-143 biological constraints on operant conditioning: Brelands and intinctive drift; autoshaping or "sign-tracking" interpreted as classical rather than operant conditioning (note relation to SSDRs pp. 178-179) CH.7 "The Four Simple Reinforcement Schedules" pp. 146-152 CH.8 "Punishment" pp. 184-185; "Is Punishment The Opposite Of Reinforcement" pp. 185-186; "Disadvantages Of Using Punishment" pp. 188-190; "Negative Punishment" p. 190; "Negative Punishment: Response Cost And Time-Out" pp. 192-194 * pp. 171-172 definition of negative reinforcement and punishment * pp. 173-174 "two-factor theory" * pp. 178-179 Bolles's idea of "species-specific defense reactions" or SSDRs * pp. 181-184 learned helplessness CH.9 "How Can We Predict What Will Be A Reinforcer?" pp. 209-211 (through "Drive Reduction") * pp. 202-203 Tolman's views about the role of reinforcement; latent learning * pp. 205-207 Neal Miller's work on operant conditioning of visceral responses; James Olds's work on electrical stimulation of the brain as a reinforcer * pp. 212-213 Premack's principle * pp. 215-216 response deprivation theory (Timberlake and Allison)