Semester Project

Last Choice

- - Simulated Research - -

This is the LEAST prefered Alternative!

Choosing this Alternative costs you one letter grade on the Semester Project.

Basic Guidelines

1. Do not purchase a living being for this project.
2. Do not purchase any thing expensive (a couple of dollars for Unconditioned Stimuli is OK).
3. Pick something you will enjoy.
4. Pick something you can do in a few hours
1. All in an afternoon
2. A few minutes a day
5. Follow APA and USD guidelines for human subjects
1. This essentially makes using humans impossible for this assignment!
2. You must discuss use of human subjects with me prior to using humans as subjects!
3. You can, however, use yourself as the subject
6. Behave in an ethical, legal, and safe manner.
7. Use a positive reflex stratedgy – no avoidance reflexes (well, an air puff is OK).
8. Write a report on your experience (see Report material).
9. Failure to achieve target behavior can be acceptable (fat chance!).
10. Your report must explain “why and how” for success or failure.
11. Your Report should be dine-O-mite!

Suggested Time Frame

• Perform the research and data gathering before last month of school.
• Write up the report over the next month.
• Semester Project Report due two weeks before Semester Exam

Links to On-Line Simulations & Resources

Sniffy, The Virtual Rat
... When you choose the Design Classical Conditioning Experiment command
from the Experiment menu, the following dialogue box appears: ...
www.wadsworth.com/psychology_d/special_features/ ext/sniffy/exer3.htm - 16k - Cached - Similar pages

Demonstrations and Tutorials
... Classical Conditioning Demonstration This site has set up a classical conditioning
experiment that lets you manipulate the variables to condition a dog. ...
psych.athabascau.ca/html/aupr/demos.shtml - 21k - Cached - Similar pages

PSYC 390 Links
... 3. Feb. 20, Online Classical Conditioning Experiment JC Hay, Univ. of Wisconsin
(try to make the dog salivate). Feb. ... Lab: Classical Conditioning Experiment ...
courses.csusm.edu/psyc390kt/links.html - 21k - Cached - Similar pages

Classical Conditioning
... Have a play around to get a feel for the simulation, and then select a new littermate.
Experiment One: Conditioning and summation. Click for a new littermate. ...
www-users.york.ac.uk/~pjw106/PsychLab/YUCC.HTM - 5k - Cached - Similar pages

Classical Conditioning Demonstration
... you to a virtual demonstration of a study patterned after Ivan Pavlov's original
exeriments in Classical Conditioning. In order to run this experiment you will ...
www.gpc.peachnet.edu/~mgriffin/intropsych/ LM4/clascondemo.html - 4k - Cached - Similar pages