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Essentials of Psychology
Benjamin B Lahey, University of Chicago

Basic Principles of Learning

Internet Exercises

1. How might a student develop a classically conditioned fear response to a specific college classroom?

Conditional
This page uses hypertext documents and colorful graphics to explain classical conditioning.

http://www.science.wayne.edu/~wpoff/cor/mem/conditnl.html

 

2. What kinds of behaviors does our culture encourage? Is this done more through positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, or punishment?

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
An extensive list of journal articles covering the topic of positive or negative reinforcement and punishment can be located using this search engine. Just enter one of those words in the search field, then click on "search now."

Positive Reinforcement
This site offers a self-paced tutorial designed to teach the concept of positive reinforcement, and includes examples and practice exercises. Links to related information and activities are also provided.

 

3. Why are place learning, latent learning, and insight learning all considered to support cognitive theories of learning?

Cognitive Theories
Describes a wide range of cognitive theories and provides educational applications of the theories.