Lernziele

 

Susan G. Friedman Ph.D. 

I. The Learning Planet

Participants will be able to do the following:
  • Give at least two examples of instincts not being as fixed as once thought. 
  • Explain the phrase, “Selectionism is the cause that works backwards.”
  • Describe some evidence that plants learn.
  • List three interacting systems that account for behavior.

II. Controlling Outcomes: A Biological Necessity

Participants will be able to do the following:
  • Define the term primary reinforcer.
  • Explain the assertion that control is a primary reinforcer.
  • Describe what evolution has to do with learning.
  • Describe one study that suggests animals prefer choice over non-choice.

III. The Rat is Never Wrong

Participants will be able to do the following:
  • Describe the fallout of trial and error learning.
  • Describe two differences between trial and error learning and errorless learning.
  • Describe three examples of antecedent arrangements to reduce errors.
  • Describe at least one consequence strategy to reduce errors.

IV. Ideas That Should Die

Participants will be able to do the following:
  • Explain the causality error.
  • Define the reification fallacy.
  • Refute the assertion that behavior analysts deny the existence of animals’ thoughts and emotions.
  • Clarify the difference between reinforcers and rewards.

 

Mary Hunter M.S. - coming soon!

Jesús Rosales-Ruiz Ph.D - coming soon!