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- Sigrid Glenn—Levels of selection
- Neuroplasticity
- TED-Ed: What is Epigenetics – Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna
- Ivan Pavlov—Classical conditioning
- John B. Watson—Little Albert experiments
- B. F. Skinner—Operant conditioning and free will
- B. F. Skinner—On education
- B. F. Skinner—It is possible to change the ways people treat each other
- B. F. Skinner—Behaviorism is a humanistic psychology
- Murray Sidman—The scientist/practitioner in behavior analysis
- Graylag goose fixed-action pattern
- Stickleback fish fixed-action pattern
- Stickleback mating patterns—Reaction chain
- Habituation of a startle response
- Classical conditioning—Pavlov
- Habituation to repeated stimulus at the level of the synapse. Erik Kandel experiment on Aplysia
- Scientists train honeybees to detect explosives
- Behavioural pharmacology in classical conditioning of the proboscis extension response in honeybees
- Robert Rescorla discusses measuring changes in associative learning
- B. F. Skinner discussing operant conditioning
- Big Bang Theory—Negative reinforcement vs. positive punishment
- Allen Neuringer—Variability of the operant
- An interview with Allen Neuringer
- B. F. Skinner shaping a pigeon to turn
- Kennon Lattal—Facets of operant extinction
- Extinction burst defined—Jargon of the Day/a>
- Reward, Reinforcement, and the Neural Bases of Decision-Making – Bernard Balleine
- Review of the basic schedules of reinforcement
- Skinner discussing schedules of reinforcement
- Applications of schedules of reinforcement to work situations
- Discussion of the use of schedules of reinforcement in video games
- Progressive-ratio responding for palatable high-fat and high-sugar food in mice
- ABA Therapy: Schedules of Reinforcement
- Big Bang Theory—Negative reinforcement vs. positive punishment
- Example of non-exclusionary timeout
- Response cost example: Response cost raffle
- Examples of Positive & Negative Reinforcement and Punishment
- Negative Reinforcement – Examples for ASWB Exams
- Phillip Hineline tutorial on aversive events and behavior
- Japanese macaques washing their food (a practice spread by imitation)
- Andrew Meltzoff: Born learning (note the role of neural plasticity)
- Neonate imitation (a demonstration of infant imitation of tongue protrusion)
- Ramachandran: Mirror neurons (TED) (what mirror neurons do and speculation about the role of the mirror-neuron system for human behavior and culture)
- Pigeon imitating a ball-pecking response (a segment from Epstein’s imitation experiment)
- Teaching imitation (teaching generalized imitation to children with autism)
- Bandura’s Bobo doll experiment
- Contingency-shaped vs. rule-governed (interplay of rule-following and contingency-controlled behavior is demonstrated)
- B. F. Skinner—Teaching Machines and Programmed Learning (an early demonstration; try to extend the principles to modern computer learning)
- Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) programs for the treatment of autistic behavior
- News report on Stickk.com
- Good Morning America discussion of HealthyWage.com (betting on your weight loss)
- Headsprout early reading-Sample episodes
- Episode 2, hear a sound and select the correct phonetic letters
- Episode 30, read sentences and perform comprehension tasks
- Episode 72, reading long passages and successfully answering comprehension exercises
- An overview of Keller’s personalized system of instruction
- The Food Dude Healthy Eating Program
- B. F. Skinner—The evolution of culture (audio only)
- Overview of natural selection
- Epigenetics in evolution with Dr. Eva Jablonka
- Honey bee waggle dance
- Shelley Berger discusses her research with carpenter ants
- Whistling language of La Gomera
- Sigrid Glenn talks about the cultural level of analysis
- Tragedy of the commons demo
- Cultural learning in wild chimps