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Introduction to Psychology
Unit 3: States of Consciousness
Learning

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5-6% States of consciousness
  • Sleep and dreaming
  • Hypnosis and meditation
  • Psychoactive drug effects
    10-11% Learning
  • Biological bases
  • Classical conditioning
  • Operant conditioning
  • Observational Learning
  • Cognitive processes in learning
  • Video
    The Mind Awake and Asleep from Discovering Psychology
    Our varying levels of consciousness empower us to interpret, analyze, and direct our behavior in flexible ways. The nature of sleeping, dreaming, and altered states of consciousness are explored in this program. With Dr. Ernest Hartman, formerly of Tufts University, and Dr. Robert McCarley of Harvard Medical School.

    The Mind Hidden and Divided from Discovering Psychology
    This program shows how experiences that take place below the level of consciousness alter our moods, bias our actions, and affect our health -- as demonstrated in repression, discovered and false memory syndromes, hypnosis, and split-brain cases. With Dr. Jonathan Schooler of the University of Pittsburgh and Dr. Michael Gazzaniga of Dartmouth College. Updated. (Broadband Video on Demand) 

    Learning from Discovering Psychology
    Prominent researchers Pavlov, Thorndike, Watson, and Skinner have greatly influenced today’s thinking about how learning takes place. This program examines the basic principles of classical and operant conditioning elaborated by these renowned figures. With Dr. Howard Rachlin of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Dr. Robert Ader of the University of Rochester. Updated. (Broadband Video on Demand) 

    Cognitive Processes from Discovering Psychology
    This program is an exploration into the higher mental processes reasoning, planning, and problem solving and why the cognitive revolution is attracting such diverse investigators from philosophers to computer scientists. With Dr. Howard Gardner of Harvard University and Dr. Michael Posner of the University of Oregon. (Broadband Video on Demand) 

    Text

    Unit III - The Learning Perspective : SIU
    Chapter 6 Behavioral Learning
    Chapter 7 Social and Cognitive Learning
    Chapter 8 Evaluating the Learning Perspective

    Lectures

    Basic Processes of Learning : Ferguson

    Memory and Consciousness : Ferguson

    Lecture 7 Walter Cannon; Structure of the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems; Sleep : Kean

    Arousal
    Sleep
    Sleep disorders

    Lecture 8 Learning 1: Pavlov and Thorndike; Conditioning : Kean

    Behavior Theory and Classical Conditioning
    Instrumental Conditioning
    Schedules of Reinforcement
    Aversive Conditioning

    Lecture 9 Learning 2: Principles of Learning Theories : Kean

    Cognitive Learning in Classical Conditioning
    Learned Helplessness

    Lecture 10 A Cognitive View of Instrumental Conditioning : Kean

    Biological Constraints on Learning
    Cognitive Maps
    Learning to Learn

    Consciousness : Redwoods

    Psychoactive Drugs : Redwoods

    Learning : Redwoods

    Lecture Notes for Week 7 : Cannon

    Sleep

    Lecture Notes for Week 10 : Cannon

    Learning

    Quiz

    Ace Practice Tests: Bernstein Click on Chapter 4: Consciousness

    Ace Practice Tests: Bernstein Click on Chapter 5: Learning

    Library

    370.15 LUVM Josette & Sambhava Luvmour. Natural learning rhythms : discovering how and when your child learns

    370.15 ROSE Colin Rose and Malcolm J. Nicholl Accelerated learning for the 21st century : the six-step plan to unlock your master-mind

    153.1 BORN Scott Bornstein. Breakthrough learning skills [sound recording] : how to make quantum leaps in your ability to grasp and remember almost anything

    155.4 GOPN Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl. The scientist in the crib : minds, brains, and how children learn

    371.39 MCCO Barbara L. McCombs, Jo Sue Whisler The learner-centered classroom and school : strategies for increasing student motivation and achievement

    Resources

    Tutorials
    from Dr. Margaret D. Anderson's Educational Psychology class (Cortland College) --- and follow the links.
    2. Behavioral Approach
    3. Cognitive Approach
    4. Humanistic Approach
    5. Piaget
    6. Erikson
    7. Kohlberg
    8. Maslow
    9. Operant Conditioning
    10. Classical Conditioning

    Ameoba Web Click on States of Consciousness

    Ameoba Web Click on Learning


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