Dr. Alyce Dickinson teaches PSY 4600 every fall and spring semester.
This course provides an overview of diverse topics of behavior analysis research and applications. The objectives of the course are to increase students' understanding of the principles of respondent and operant conditioning and to introduce students to diverse areas of applications of behavioral psychology. Topics include: Performance management, teaching technology (direct instruction and precision teaching), college teaching, motivation, behavioral medicine, gerontology, animal training and behavioral enrichment in zoos (increasing the well-being of captive animals), professional ethics, and certification in behavior analysis. Course prerequisites include PSY 3300 and 3600.
PSY 4600 Course Materials
Last updated: January 5th, 2009
Regrade
request (Word document)
Syllabus (Spring 09)
Study Objectives (Spring 09)
Links relevant to PSY 4600
Lecture
presentations and supplemental material
More will be added as the
semester progresses
Tip:
If you want to save lecture material to your computer,
move your mouse over the link,
right-click and choose Save Target As...
Then select somewhere to save it on your computer.
Unit
1 - Respondent Conditioning: Principles and Applications
Lecture 593 KB **NEW**
Unit
2 - Operant Conditioning: Principles and Applications
Material will be added as semester progresses
Simulation
of Meyerson and Michael study
See the experiment from the participant's perspective.
Unit
3 - Performance Management & Multiple Effects of Stimuli
Material will be added as semester progresses
Multiple
Effects of Stimuli - Flash
based tutorial developed by Doug Johnson
Unit
4 - Higher Education and Teaching Technology
Material will be added as semester progresses
Unit
5 - Animal Training and Behavioral Enrichment in Zoos
Material will be added as semester progresses
Link to Behavioral Enrichment in Zoos supplement
Link to Music Concept Learning in Rats supplement
Unit
6 - Motivating Operations
Material will be added as semester progresses
Unit
7 - Health and Gerontology
Material will be added as semester progresses
Unit
8 - Ethics and Certification in Behavior Analysis
Material will be added as semester progresses
|