Assignment task:
Reference Video:
YouTube Video: How to Train a Brain: Crash Course Psychology #11
Critical Questions:
1. Prove how Ivan Pavlov's (1849-1936) work on behaviorism was tremendous and led to the foundation of the Behaviorist school of Thought.
2. Briefly explain how associative learning can be acquired through association observation or thinking so that a neutral-stimuli-such as a sound or a light-can stimulate an observable reaction.
3. Break down and analyze the sequence of steps inside of Pavlov's famous dog experiment in order to understand how classical conditioning works through associative learning.
4. Evaluate the contributions to the field of behaviorist psychology of psychologists BF Skinner (1904-1990) and John B Watson (1878-1958)
5. Compare the difference between classical conditioning and operant conditioning.
6. Describe the purpose of an invention called the air crib by BF. Skinner.
7. Analyze how a box provided an observable stage for a rate to demonstrate Skinner's concepts of positive reinforcement through operant shaping.
8. Compare the merits of positive reinforcement against the merits of negative reinforcements.
9. Clarify the difference between negative reinforcement and punishment.
10. Explain how we taught (or conditioned) to behave in certain ways in order to get what we want or don't want through primary reinforcers. Provide an example from YOUR OWN life for this.
11. Briefly explain how receiving a paycheck is an example of conditioned reinforcer.