The post included below is over two years old and the link is broken
and Michael Renner has moved on from Nazareth. Does anyone here
happen to have a copy of his RW spreadsheet or something similar I can
use in a lecture ? Thanks.
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Harvey G. Shulman, PhD
Department of Psychology
The Ohio State University
200c Lazenby Hall
Columbus, OH 43210
ph 614 292-2759 fax 614 688-3984
Michael Renner wrote:
Colleagues:
If learning theories bore you, and/or you don't teach them, skip to the next
message.
The latest issue of Teaching of Psychology (Vol 31, No.2) includes an article
(pp 146-148) describing an interative Excel workbook illustrating some elements
of the Rescorla-Wagner model of conditioning. The idea is that many of our
students have not experienced a computational model of behavior before, and
having a chance to play with one -- e.g., seeing the effects of changing the
variables -- can quickly increase their intuitive understanding of how such
models work.
But this post isn't intended as an advertisement for the paper. I've been receiving numerous e-mails from folks describing difficulty in downloading the workbook using the link provided in the article. My interim response has been to e-mail the file to these folks, and I'm happy to continue doing this for anybody who needs it.
Now that the semester's over and I'm beginning to get dug out from under the paper
blizzard, however, I finally got a chance to investigate the problem and have discovered
its cause: The font used in ToP renders the "en" dash character (a.k.a.
hyphen) on an angle, which leads some people -- including me, at first glance -- to see
it as a tilde (~) or some other character. The link works, but it is not what some people
think it is: The correct link is
http://www-pub.naz.edu:9000/~mrenner8/RW.xls
I hope this is helpful.
Cheers,
Michael Renner
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Michael J. Renner, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Psychology
Nazareth College
4245 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14618
http://www.naz.edu/dept/cas/index.html
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