Friday, October 10, 2014

10/9 Pop Quiz

10/8-9 Social Learning

Modeling and Cognitive Effects on Conditioning

Cornell Notes in Class---
Modeling--3 forms

Latent Learning and Cognitive Maps

Learned Helplessness

10/1-7 Associated Learning

Associated Learning
Ch. 9 S1 and 2

Learning and Memory
Classical Conditiong  p. 240-249  Ch. 9 S1
Define the Following in your Cornell Notes

*classical conditioning   * learning          * acquisition    * generalization * discrimination
*extinction                                * behaviorism   * behaviorists
**Study the Figure 9.1 on pg. 243.  Briefly explain what Pavlov did and the importance of his discovery?
** Read the case study on pg. 249.  How was this study using “Baby Albert” unethical by today’s standards?

Ch. 9 S2 P. 250-256
*operant conditioning                
** Compare and Contrast operant conditioning and classical conditioning
* Reinforcement---What’s the difference between a positive and reinforcer?
* Describe and Diagram the 4 different schedules of reinforcement
Notes---Using Reinforcement Schedules
Difference between Reinforcement and Punishment
* Shaping
* Response Chains


9/30 EXAM 2

Statistics 9/25-29

Ch. 2 S3 RG
  1. What is a frequency distribution chart?  How is it useful?  How can percentage comparisons be useful?
  2. What is a frequency polygon or frequency curve?
  3. What is a normal or bell shaped curve?
  4. In looking at central tendency, what are the mode, median, and mean?  Find the mode, median and mean for the data from the following data: 12, 23, 25, 18, 17, 16, 15, 20, 21, 20, 13, 19, 22, 24, 11.
  5. What is the range?  How do you figure out the range?  What was the range from the data on Tuesday?
  6. What is the standard deviation?  What does it mean if the number for the standard deviation is big or small?
  7. What is a correlation coefficient?
  8. What is positive and negative correlation?
  9. What is a scatterplot?  What are inferential statistics?
  10. What makes something statistically significant?
Review for the Exam