Psychology 2800E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: B. F. Skinner, Nomothetic, Classical Conditioning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2800E
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

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Bf skinner should study one rate for one thousand hours. Part 1: reasons for using single participant experiments. 1 group experiments tell us about groups of people, not individuals. 2 group scores (means) can misrepresent the behavior of specific individuals (not all student get the mean on the exam) 3group scores can misrepresent the behavior of all individuals in the group see w&m p 297-298 figure 12. 1: gradual learning at group level figure 12. 2: sudden learning at individual level. But study can be replicated with other participants (ito see if the results generalize) so also known as small-n experiments. Each replication (with single p) is a separate experiment ( look for. Note 2: single participant experiments have a long history in psychology. Pavlov"s studies of classical conditioning (replication vs dog) Skinner studies of operant conditioning ( one dog at a time, one pigeon at a time)