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.