Module 1: The Evolution of Learning Science
Chapter 1. Exploring the Pathways of Learning: From Aristotle’s Laws of Association to Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 2. Fundamental Concepts: Mapping the Terrain of Learning
Module Application
Module 2: Innate Behaviors and Non-associative Learning
Chapter 3. Unveiling Nature's Blueprint for Learning: Exploring Innate Behaviors
Chapter 4. Exploring Nonassociative Learning
Module Application
Module 3: The ABCs of Classical Conditioning
Chapter 5. Foundations and Basic Concepts of Classical Conditioning
Chapter 6. Classical Conditioning Beyond Pavlov: From Little Albert to Peter and the Rabbit
Module Application
Module 4: Behavioral Adaptations, Determinants, and Modeling of Classical Conditioning
Chapter 7. The Power and Adaptive Functions of Classical Conditioning
Chapter 8. Unravelling the Building Blocks Classical Conditioning
Chapter 9. Cracking the Code: Modelling Classical Conditioning
Module Application
Module 5: The Fundamentals of Operant Conditioning and Types of Reinforcers
Chapter 10. From Puzzle Boxes to Skinner Boxes: The Fundamentals of Operant Conditioning
Chapter 11. Reinforcers: How they work and what makes them effective?
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Module 6: Reinforcement and Extinction
Chapter 12. Theories of Reinforcement
Chapter 13. How does it come together? The Associative Structure of Instrumental Conditioning
Chapter 14. Exploring the Dynamics of Extinction
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Module 7: The Principals of Stimulus Control and Behavioral Effects of Stimulus Discrimination
Chapter 15. Under Stimulus Control: The Environment’s Influence on Behavior
Chapter 16. Fine-Tuning Behavior: The Behavioral Effects of Stimulus Discrimination
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Module 8: Choice Behavior and Self-control
Chapter 17. Choice, Choices, Choices: Choice Behavior Unveiled
Chapter 18. Do good things come to those who wait? Unraveling the Mechanisms of Self-Control
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Module 9: Avoidance Behaviour and Punishment
Chapter 19. Surviving in a Potentially Dangerous Environment: Understanding Avoidance Behavior
Chapter 20. Punishment
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Module 10: Cognitive psychology, Comparative Cognition, Memory and Navigation
Chapter 21. The Surprisingly Complex Behavior of Animals: Cognitive Psychology and Comparative Cognition
Chapter 22. Tracing One’s Path: Memory and Navigation
Module Application
References
Index
Biography
Stéphane Gaskin has served as a Psychology Professor at Dawson College in Montreal since 2006. He also gives lectures at McGill University and has previously taught at Concordia University. He obtained his PhD in Psychology from McGill in 2007 and his MA from Concordia in 2002. His postdoctoral work includes positions at the University of California, San Diego, and at Concordia University. Dr. Gaskin’s research mainly focused on the behavioral neuroscience of learning and memory.
