Learning: Conditioning and Beyond: Social Studies Unit 4, Grade 11 (Letters & Devotion)

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Learning: Conditioning and Beyond is Unit 4 of Psychology: Mind, Brain, and Behavior (Part 1) (Grade 11), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 95 pages.

• The four-term structure of classical conditioning (US, UR, CS, CR)
• The extinction/spontaneous recovery pattern in classical conditioning
• Biological constraints on conditioning: taste aversion and preparedness (Garcia effect)
• The four-quadrant operant contingency table (reinforcement/punishment x positive/negative)
• Schedules of reinforcement and their characteristic response patterns
• Documented limitations of punishment as a behavior-change strategy
• Bandura’s observational learning model (modeling, and the attention-retention-reproduction-motivation sequence)
• Integrated application of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning to a novel real-world scenario, including evaluation of claims against research limits
• The terms extinction, generalization, and discrimination across both conditioning types
• Popular misuse of ‘positive reinforcement’ and ‘conditioned’ versus the technical operant/classical definitions

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.