The psychology curriculum at Columbia College

The introductory course is "biologically toned, experimentally grounded and systematically prescribed." A student taking the introductory course attends 2 one-hour lectures and 4 consecutive laboratory hours per week. The lecture content following the textbook developed at Columbia include...

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Published in:The American psychologist 1949-06, Vol.4 (6), p.165-172
Main Authors: Keller, Fred S, Schoenfeld, William N
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Colleges
Curriculum
Emotions
Extinction (Learning)
Human
Motivation
Operant Conditioning
Psychology Education
Secondary Reinforcement
Social Behavior
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Summary:The introductory course is "biologically toned, experimentally grounded and systematically prescribed." A student taking the introductory course attends 2 one-hour lectures and 4 consecutive laboratory hours per week. The lecture content following the textbook developed at Columbia includes the following topics: Psychology and the Reflex; Respondent Conditioning; Operant Conditioning; Extinction and Reconditioning; Generalization and Discrimination; Differentiation Chaining; Secondary Reinforcement; Motivation; Emotion; Social Behavior. In the laboratory course each student has his own rat and "the amount of data turned out each week is impressive." New advanced courses which were introduced include Discrimination and Motivation; Conditioning, while Social Psychology and Differential Psychology were retained. It is planned to make Abnormal Psychology a laboratory course.
ISSN:0003-066X
1935-990X
DOI:10.1037/h0057770