Hi Marc,
I have used Frieman's Learning and Adaptive Behavior to accompany Sniffy. He
actually has a supplement to talks about how Sniffy is used in each Chapter and
Sniffy assignments to accompany the chapters. Granted he was my graduate
advisor and so I may be a bit partial, but it is a really good book. It can be
somewhat advanced at times, but my undergraduates did okay. They complained
about the level of difficulty, but I took it as a challenge, and a good one, in
academic rigor.
Nina
Nina L. Tarner, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Psychology
HC 219
Department of Psychology
Sacred Heart University
Fairfield, CT. 06825
(203) 371-7915
(203) 371-7995 Fax
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From: Marc Carter [marc.car...@bakeru.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 4:24 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Learning and Behavior
Hi, All --
I'm doing a class in Learning and Behavior next semester, and this time I'm
going to use Sniffy (in the past it's been a real rat lab, but what with
budgets and failing equipment, I'll only get one example rat and have them do
exercises with Sniffy).
Anyway, I want it to be a course that does not only the psychology of learning,
but the philosophy of behaviorism. Sniffy learns fast, and I have a 3-hour
lab, so we can move fairly quickly, and spend probably the last month of the
semester doing more of the philosophical underpinnings. I want them to have a
fairly deep understanding of both epistemological (methodological) and
metaphysical behaviorism (umm, determinism).
I'm wondering if someone out there has taught a similar course. I've read a
bunch of Skinner and about-Skinner, but am just wondering what others have used
in courses. I'm also interested in a text to supplement Sniffy (the learning
in there doesn't go as deeply as I would like).
So, ideas? I'll repay with reporting about how it goes...
m
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Marc Carter, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
Baker University
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