CCCCD: Associate Professor Wade Baggette
Spring 2007 Section P08
I greatly encourage my students to explore these links to enrich their learning experience. The links below may help clarify material covered in the book, mentioned in class, or both.
Chapter Eight Information and Links
The following topics from Chapter Eight are important and exam-worthy:
Part 1
- Define Learning and Understand the definition
- Define Habitiuation and Understand the definition; be able to contrast habituation to learning
- Who was
John B Watson?
- an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism
- Conducted the "Little Albert" experiment
- Popular author on child rearing
- Contributor to the advertising industry
- Be able to identify studies that focus on behavior as opposed to other psychological variables or constructs
- Know Ivan Pavlov’s Experiment as described on pp. 316 and 317 of the textbook
- Especially be able to recognize and understand the
following terms
- Classical conditioning
- Unconditioned Stimulus
- Unconditioned Response
- Conditioned Stimulus
- Conditioned Response
- Acquisition
- Extinction
- Know that re-acquisition of a learned behavior is faster
than initial acquisition of that same learned behavior. What practical
examples?
- “I haven’t done it in years, but I picked it up almost immediately.”
- Bad habits can resume with the same intensity as they had when initial efforts to extinguish them began
- If addiction is “drug seeking behavior,” then what implications for addiction?
Part 2
- All material in the chapter is available for testing, but these topics are emphasized