Do we need to know (in learning)

[psychlaw]

Do we need to know the following things in learning
 Conditioned Reflexes and Conditioned Emotional Response
 Behaviour modification, animal training and token economy
 Henry Harlow and his monkeys
 John Garcia (and whatever he did)
 Instrumental Learning (or is this the same thing as operant conditioning)

I looked at the Study Design, under the Key Knowledge section and couldn’t find any of these, so I assume we don’t need to know them? Can anyone point out which of these we need to know (if any)

[misskaraleah]

assuming you will need to know ALL of the dot points EXCEPT 'token economies'.
All of the others are in the Grivas, Down and Carter book and my teacher said book is very specific to the study deisgn.

Besides- it wont hurt knowing them briefly

[rh]

i'm pretty sure we don't need to know whatever john garcia did

admittedly my school uses a shit textbook and garcia isn't even in it, but my teacher (who also photocopied all the grivas down and carter chapters for us) didn't mention it at all? :s

[arthurk]

it's wise to learn all of them although animal training is sorta an obvious part of learning so nothing really there to learn, john garcia did taste aversion right? doubt ull need to know the specifics.

[Eliseblack]

Harry Harlow - need to know his studies on the rhesus monkeys and their development of a learning set, i think this incorporates insight learning as well.
instrumental learning we definitely need to know, in relation to Thorndike's cat's and operant conditioning, it basically just means that the organism was instrumental in learning. (i'm pretty sure)
we skimmed over Garcia, not sure if he's in the study design, but its just conditioning a taste aversion in wolves - shows that taste aversion plays an adaptive role in survival.
hope this helps!

[Nick]

 Conditioned Reflexes and Conditioned Emotional Response- YES
 Behaviour modification, animal training and token economy- NO
 Henry Harlow and his monkeys-Yes, definitely!
 John Garcia (and whatever he did)- NO
 Instrumental Learning (or is this the same thing as operant conditioning)- YES

[Eriny]

I would say it's good to know that Garcia showed how one trial learning/taste aversion works, and read up on it briefly, but don't worry about memorising the details of the experiment. I would recommend that you also understand the applications of operant conditioning, but again, don't bother committing them to memory.

[Amnesiac]

I also agree. The application of Operant and Classical Conditioning are concepts that can be understood easily, but not necessarily memorised. If anything, they may throw in a question about one of them in the MC such as Animal Training and ask what it is related to (i.e. shaping).