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If you’re interested in a more recent (2008) look at Genie, ABC news has an excellent – if long – article looking at her progression and regression in language skills and acquisition. The Guardian also has a recent article (2016) where they attempted to track her down to learn of her current condition. They were […]
March 21, 2018
If you weren’t in class today, here’re the practice worksheets that I assigned for operant conditioning. Classical vs Operant Conditioning GP-Learning-Reinforcement worksheet Operant Conditioning Worksheet Please make sure that you take time to watch “Motivation and Reward in Learning” as well.
March 20, 2018
Due to the shortened class today, we were unable to get to my regularly scheduled conditioning practice. Please do these tonight and we will review them tomorrow. classical_conditioning_worksheet classical_conditioning WS2
March 20, 2018
I always wondered what happened to him, and apparently so did some people with some serious time on their hands. The identity of Baby Albert was determined to be Douglas Merritte, who sadly died at age six from “water on the brain.” After getting hold of his medical records, they learned that Douglas suffered from a […]
March 9, 2018
I believe that I’ve mentioned this disorder during class. Fatal Familial Insomnia, or FFI, is a prion disorder of the brain much like mad cow disease. The prions eat away at brain tissue and form small holes in the areas controlling sleep — specifically REM sleep (for more on which area controls what, please reference the […]
February 26, 2018
The internet is amazing at spreading useless stuff, but this actually ties in with this unit in AP Psychology. What’s up with the dress that people see as white and gold or black and blue? It even has color perception scientists stumped: That said, neuroscientist Bevil Conway of Wellesley College, speaking to Wired, did seem able to […]
April 20, 2018
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