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Sniffy By Tom Alloway

Sniffy by Tom Alloway


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Summary

The new Pro version of the famous Sniffy software simulates a wide range of learning phenomena that are typically discussed in undergraduate courses on the Psychology of Learning. This text provides details of the software and its functions.

Sniffy Summary

Sniffy: The Virtual Rat: PRO Version by Tom Alloway

The new Pro version of the famous Sniffy software simulates a wide range of learning phenomena that are typically discussed in undergraduate courses on the Psychology of Learning. Sniffy, a digital rat in an operant chamber (Skinner Box), helps users explore the principles of operant and classical conditioning with all the benefits of using a live animal and none of the drawbacks. Users begin by training Sniffy to press a bar to obtain food and progress to studies of complex learning phenomena. The Sniffy Pro program provides a simple user interface that enables students to set up events in Sniffy's operant chamber in much the same way research psychologists set up events for real animals. To visualize the results of experiments, the program produces realistic cumulative records and other appropriate behavioural measures of Sniffy's performance. In addition, a series of Mind Windows enable students to visualize how Sniffy's experiences in the Skinner Box produce the psychological changes that their textbooks discuss in connection with the phenomena simulated.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Sniffy - how and why the Sniffy program was created; introduction to operant conditioning - background and a description of operant chambers and response measures; elementary operant phenomena - magazine training, shaping, acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, primary and secondary reinforcement; schedules of reinforcement - VI, FI, VR, FR schedule effects; operant discrimination and generalization - simple and complex discrimination learning, stimulus generalization; introduction to classical conditioning - background and procedures for measuring the conditioned emotional response; elementary phenomena of classical conditioning - acquisition, extinction, and spontaneous recovery, stimulus intensity effects; compound conditioning and related phenomena - compound conditioning, overshadowing, blocking; inhibitory conditioning - procedures and measurements; associative structures in classical conditioning - sensory preconditioning and higher-order conditioning; nature of classical-conditioning association - S-S vs. S-R associations; habituation and sensitization of the UR - non-associative effects of US intensity.

Additional information

GOR002994214
9780534358655
0534358659
Sniffy: The Virtual Rat: PRO Version by Tom Alloway
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cengage Learning, Inc
19991220
34
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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