Sorry, more technical difficulties. Only the last 30 min of the lecture. We have moved on to Theoretical Issues in Operant Conditioning, so get the new powerpoints.
Music “Elvis Lives” by Skinner
Psychology 3306 – Instrumental Conditioning 05
Instrumental Conditioning, will it ever end? All about avoidance today.
Music “Drive” by Kids Fly Free
Bonus Episode – How to search for research articles
Ken Hernden from the Wishart Library at Algoma U gave a guest lecture in today’s 3306 class. Ken talked about how to search and about the awesome tool refworks. Thanks again Ken, that rocked.
Music “Brother” by The Library of Ephysus (clever eh….)
Psychology 3306 – Instrumental Conditioning 04
Will we ever stop doing instrumental condiitoning? Yeah sometime in November…
I apologize for the audio quality on this one, my battery on the iRiver mp3 recorder ran out and I had to record with a Griffin iTalk and my iPod. The iPod is a superior mp3 player, but not much of a recorder. Indeed, I can record at 320 kBps on the iRiver, but only 16 on the iPod!
Music “Come On Let’s Go” by Sound of a Revolution
Psychology 3306 – Instrumental Conditioning 03
Psychology 3306 – Instrumental Conditioning 02
Instrumental Conditioning, brought to you by Tequila….
Music ‘I Married a Magician’ by the Dust Poets (who will be at Loplops this Thursday, Oct 26, 2006).
Psychology 3306 Pavlovian Conditioning 05 and Instrumental Condiitoning 01
Pavlovian Conditioning Concludes and Instrumental Conditioning begins. Plus a visit from the Ninja!
Music “Don’t You Love Me” by Big Wheel and the Spokes
Here is the text of Bob Rescorla’s answer about one trial extinction.
“Dave,
I can think of no cases in which one obtains one trial complete extinction.
We have never entertained alphas that high because they would produce wide sweeps in associative strength and yield unstable predictions for many situations.
I would conceptualize flooding not as a case of a high salience but rather as a case of multiple presentations of a stimulus, but neither is really spot on.”
The blackboard diagram of context blocking:
Psychology 3306 – Rescorla Wagner Recap
Psychology 3306 – Theoretical issues in Pavlovian Conditioning
Rescorla and Wagner came up with this way cool model….
Music “Coffin” by 10 Shot
Psychology 3306 – Pavlovian Conditioning 02
Show tunes + guys banging on the roof = short class.
Music “Always Been Me” by Startlefish
Blackboard drawing of schematic of Rescorla (1973) hyoptheses:
