General Psychology
Professor Barbara Lusk Stern
Reading Assignments, PowerPoints, Videos & Web Sites

Unit 7: Learning

Readings: Mandatory

Lilienfeld, Psychology, From Inquiry to Understanding, Ch. 6

PAVLOV AND CLASSICAL CONDITIONING:  STEP BY STEP EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE

Readings: Optional

Nick Joyce & Cathy Faye, "Skinner Air Crib"

Green, Christopher, "Conditioned Emotional Reactions"

Powell, Russell A.; Digdon, Nancy; Harris, Ben, "Correcting the Record on Watson, Rayner, and Little Albert: Albert Barger as 'Psychology's lost boy' ".

PowerPoints: Mandatory

Audio Lecture-PowerPoint Lilienfeld, Unit 7, Ch. 6

Lecture-PowerPoint Lilienfeld, Ch. 6 - no audio


Stern, Unit 7-ch. 6 Learning

Visit the following web sites:

Big Bang Theory, Operant Conditioning

Philip Zimbardo, Classical Conditioning

John B. Watson's Little Albert Experiments

Fun and Positive Reinforcment

Little Albert Experiments with Kerry Buckley narrating

Albert Bandura, Bobo Doll Experiment: A Study in Aggression