Psychology

What We are Learning: This week students have been learning about Operant Conditioning! They have been learning, and will continue to learn about reinforcers and punishments and how both can alter behavior. The discussions are great!

Weekly Vocab Quizzes: Each week students will take a vocabulary quiz to keep them current in their understanding, and it gives them the opportunity to regularly practice helpful testing skills. The next vocab quiz will be Friday, January 24, 2020. The words included are the following:
-Learning
-Classical conditioning
-Neutral stimulus
-Unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
-Unconditioned Response (UCR)
-Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
-Conditioned Response (CR)
-Extinction
-Spontaneous recovery
-Stimulus generalization
-Discrimination stimulus
-Operant conditioning
-Reinforcement
-Reinforcer
-Primary reinforcer
-Secondary reinforcer

Inspiring Quote:
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Martin Luther King Jr.