Psychology Tomorrow - Learning Sites

Learning: Internet Links

NOTE: You can go directly to the outline on this subject from the course lectures.

The Behavioral Perspective: Acquiring New Responses to and for Stimuli

The Behavioral Approach
http://snycorva.cortland.edu/~ANDERSMD/BEH/BEHAVIOR.HTML
Human behavior is learned, thus all behavior can be unlearned and new behaviors learned in its place. Behaviorism is concerned primarily with the observable and measurable aspects of human behavior.

http://www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/classics/Watson/intro.htm
Classics in the History of Psychology - Introduction to: "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it." John B. Watson (1913) by Christopher D. Green.

http://www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/classics/Watson/views.htm
Classics in the History of Psychology - Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it. John B. Watson (1913). First published in Psychological Review, 20, 158-177.

http://www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/classics/Watson/commentary.htm
Classics in the History of Psychology - Commentary on: "Psychology as the Behaviorist View It" John B. Watson (1913) By Robert H. Wozniak. Originally published as "Behaviorism," In Bringmann, W.G., Luck, H.E., Miller, R., & Early, C.E. (Eds.). A Pictorial History of Psychology.

http://www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/classics/Dewey/reflex.htm
The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology John Dewey (1896) First published in Psychological Review, 3, 357-370. Classics in the History of Psychology, An internet resource developed by Christopher D. Green, York University, Toronto, Ontario.

History of Classical Conditioning
http://www.as.wvu.edu/~sbb/comm221/chapters/pavlov.htm
Informal, abbreviated history of classical conditioning, with examples.

http://www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/classics/Yerkes/pavlov.htm
Classics in the History of Psychology - THE METHOD OF PAWLOW IN ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY by Robert M. Yerkes and Sergius Morgulis (1909) First published in The Psychological Bulletin, 6, 257-273.

Extinction
http://www.science.wayne.edu/~wpoff/cor/mem/condxtin.html
Key ideas in the extinction process and color illustrations using Pavlov's dog and bell example.

http://www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/classics/Watson/emotion.htm
Classics in the History of Psychology - CONDITIONED EMOTIONAL REACTIONS By John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner(1920). First published in Journal of Experimental Psychology, 3(1), 1-14.

The Behaviorism of B.F. Skinner
http://www.fni.com/cim/briefings/behave.txt
A summary of the basic views of B.F. Skinner, one of the most influential behavioral psychologists.

Positive Reinforcement: A Self-Instructional Exercise
http://server.bmod.athabascau.ca/html/prtut/reinpair.htm
An exercise in which the concept of positive reinforcement is defined and illustrated in six example/nonexample pairs.

The Cognitive Perspective: Acquiring Information About the World

http://www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/classics/Tolman/Maps/maps.htm
Classics in the History of Psychology - COGNITIVE MAPS IN RATS AND MEN by Edward C. Tolman (1948) First published in The Psychological Review, 55(4), 189-208.

Violence on Television: What do Children Learn? What Can Parents Do?
http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/violence.html
Violent programs on television lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch those programs.