FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: LAST CHANCE TO TURN IN ANY LATE OR MISSING WORK!

LEARNING TARGETS:

• 1ST SEMESTER EXAM - SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW!

AGENDA:

• Close all tabs except this page.
• Click on 1ST SEMESTER EXAM to take in Quia
• IF DROPPING THE CLASS, DON’T FORGET TO TURN IN YOUR TEXTBOOK BY TODAY!!!

• 1st and 2nd Hour Exams
• Meet with 1st Semester 4th, 5th, 6th Hour Classes for review
  

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & Take Notes on Module 3.8a: Operant Conditioning Basic Concepts (pg. 417-428) - due TUESDAY (HOURS 1-3), WEDNESDAY (HOURS 4-6). (See new exam schedule)

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION:

• NEW SEAT CHART - FIND YOUR SEAT & MEET NEW PEOPLE FOR 2ND SEMSTER!

  Say Hello and Introduce Yourself to any NEW STUDENTS in Our Hour! - Need some help with what to discuss? Try these discussion questions.

• Unenroll in your old Google Classroom class if you changed hours and enroll in your new hour. Your old materials from your 1st Semester AP Psych class will be in your Google Drive in the Google Classroom folder. Use the Google Classroom Codes

• Where have we been, where are we going? - Set your Goal for this Semester
• AP EXAM REVIEW QUIZZES: This semester we'll start have 1-2 review quizzes a week over old material to combat the forgetting curve and keep it fresh for the AP Exam in May.
• HW WAIVER: If you received an A for 1st Semester you can opt out of nightly note taking HW points and have your grade based solely on tests and quizzes.

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Explain the difference between Classical & Operant Conditioning
• What is Thorndike's Law of Effect?
• Who is B.F. Skinner and why is he important?
• What is shaping/successive approximations and how does it work?

AGENDA:

• EXAM DAY MAKE-UP - SEE MONDAY FOR LINK
• 3rd & 4th Hour Exams
• Meet with 2nd Semester 1st, 2nd, 3rd Hour Classes
  
  
• Module 3.8a: Operant Conditioning Principles (Virtual Lecture watch up to 17:43)
  • Classical Conditioning - A Quick Refresher
  • The difference between Classical & Operant Conditioning TED Talk (4 min)
  • The Law of Effect - Thorndike's Law of Effect (2 min)
  • Quick overview of Skinner - Intro to B.F. Skinner (4 min)
    • View examples of Skinner's Experiments from these archived LIFE magazine articles:
      • Boxes for Babies
      • This Smart University of Minnesota Rat Works a Slot Machine for a Living
      • The Chemical Mind Changers
      • Review of Beyond Freedom and Dignity
      • Ping Pong for Pigeons

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & Take Notes on Module 3.8a: Operant Conditioning Basic Concepts (pg. 417-428) - due WEDNESDAY (HOURS 4-6). (See new exam schedule)

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

AGENDA:

• EXAM DAY MAKE-UP - SEE MONDAY FOR LINK
• 5th & 6th Hour Exams
• Meet with 2nd Semester 4th, 5th, & 6th Hour Classes (see yesterday for our lesson)
  

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION:

• Can Operant Conditioning be used to train a human? How about getting people to choose stairs over an escalator? (2 min)

  IF TIME ALLOWS: How do superstitions form? V-Sauce Mind Field: Behavior & Belief (1:08-13:25)

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Describe what a discriminative stimulus is and how it it works in operant conditioning.
• Describe how shaping (successive approximations) can be used to teach complex behaviors.
• What is a discriminatory stimulus? How is your phone an example?
• Can you correctly identify + & - reinforcement, + & - punishment?
• What is meant by Negative Reinforcement by Escape and Negative Reinforcement by Avoidance?

AGENDA:

• Module 3.8a: Operant Conditioning Principles (Virtual Lecture watch from 17:43-30:30)
  • Discriminitive Stimulus - The trigger to do the desired behavior
    • Your phone and you - Who is training who? (Brain Games Season 4: Phone Addiction Experiment 15:19-18:56, Explanation: 18:56-20:45)
  • Shaping using successive approximations - How to teach a complex behavior.
    • Shaping a pigeon to turn
    • Pigeons playing ping pong
    • Shaping rat behavior - Rat Basketball!
    • See this Guide to How Sea World Trains its Animals.
    • Watch how Operant Conditioning is used to train animals using successive approximations & how it can create superstitions - The Psych Files (6 min)
  • What is a discriminatory stimulus? - How your phone is an example.
  • Knowing the difference between Positive (Additive) and Negative (Subtractive) Reinforcement & Punishment
    
    
• Pass out and work on.. Powerful Consequences Handout.

REVIEW OPERANT CONDITIONING:

• Operant Conditioning Review (8 min)
• Operant Conditioning White Board Review – Which is it?  Positive or Negative Reinforcement or Positive & Negative Punishment or extinction?
  • Miss class or need more help? Try this Flip It Video on Reinforcement (4 min)

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Finish Powerful Consequences Handout - Due Tomorrow
  • Need more practice try Operant Conditioning White Board Review – Which is it?  Positive or Negative Reinforcement or Positive & Negative Punishment or extinction?

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read Module 3.8b: Operant Conditioning Applications & Biological Limitations (pg. 429-434) for TUESDAY.

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Go over Powerful Consequences Handout. (ANSWERS) in class.

• Discuss with a partner the ones you got wrong.

LEARNING TARGETS:

• What is the difference between a primary and secondary (conditioned) reinforcer?
• What is the difference between immediate & delayed reinforcement?
• What do studies tell us about people who can delay their reinforcement?

AGENDA:

• Finish Notes on Primary vs Secondary/Conditioned Reinforcers (Virtual Lecture - 30:30 - END)
  • Primary vs. Secondary/Conditioned Reinforcers
    • How powerful are primary reinforcers? The Squirrel Obstacle Course
      
      
• Module 3.8a: Operant Conditioning Principles: Schedules of Reinforcement (Virtual Lecture - Watch up 32:15 - stop at punishment)
• Pass out Schedules of Reinforcement "Cheat" Sheet handout. - use this to help you.
• Pass out Schedules of Reinforcement Practice Sheet Part 1, Part 2 - do both sides for Monday.
  
  
• Need more help understanding Schedules of Reinforcement?
  • Review Schedules of Reinforcement with Mr. Sinn. Mr. Sinn's Operant Conditioning Review (4:15-END)
  • The power of Reinforcement Schedules and how they are used on us. (10 min)

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Schedules of Reinforcement Practice Sheet Part 1, Part 2 - do both sides for Monday.
• Read Module 3.8b: Operant Conditioning Applications & Biological Limitations (pg. 429-434) for TUESDAY.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Extra Credit: Complete the Article Summary Sheet and turn in (+1 - Maximum 3 per unit)
  • Why We Procrastinate... (NY Times article - Use your school email to access this Digital Pass) - It's more than just being lazy.
  • Are We Wired to Be Bad with Money? TED Radio Hour on NPR (10 min) - Summarize and apply to the chapter and tell us what you think about it (+ 1)
  • Is Free Will an Illusion? Radio Lab (+1)
  • The Trust Engineers - Radio Lab (+1) - How behavioral scientists at Facebook use data to control the way we share, like and gossip and gripe.