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The following table illustrates the correspondence between the units in the course and the reading assignments. “Chance” refers to the main course text, Learning and Behavior (2006). Grant and Evans refers to an additional reading contained in your course package (1994).

Units and Readings

1. Introduction

   Chance, Chapter 1: Introduction

   Chance, Chapter 2: The Study of Learning and Behavior

2. Pavlovian Conditioning and its Applications

   Chance, Chapter 3: Pavlovian Conditioning

   Chance, Chapter 4: Pavlovian Conditioning Applications

3. Operant Reinforcement

   Chance, Chapter 5: Operant Reinforcement

4. Operant and Vicarious Processes

   Chance, Chapter 6: Operant Punishment

   Chance, Chapter 7: Operant Applications

   Chance, Chapter 8: Vicarious Learning

5. Generalization, Discrimination, and Stimulus Control

   Chance, Chapter 9: Generalization, Discrimination, and Stimulus Control

   Grant and Evans, Chapter 14: Conceptual Behavior and Generalized Response Classes

6. Schedules of Reinforcement

   Chance, Chapter 10: Schedules of Reinforcement

7. Remembering and Forgetting and the Limits of Learning

   Chance, Chapter 11: Remembering and Forgetting

   Chance, Chapter 12: The Limits of Learning