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AP Psychology Curriculum Map: Unit Six
Overview and Enduring Understandings
Overview: This section of the course introduces students to differences between learned and unlearned behavior. The primary
focus is exploration of different kinds of learning, including classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational
learning. The biological bases of behavior illustrate predispositions for learning.
Enduring Understandings:
Learning (7–9%)
Duration of Unit
10 Days – Chapter 6 in Psychology (7th ed.)
Content Expectations/Standards
Students will be able to:
Key Concepts
Introduced during Unit 6 and reinforced
throughout semester:
Distinguish general differences between principles of classical
conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning
Learning, habituation, classical conditioning,
(e.g., contingencies).
unconditioned stimulus (UCS), unconditioned response
(UCR), conditioned stimulus (CS), conditioned response
Describe basic classical conditioning phenomena, such as
acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, (CR), extinction, reconditioning, spontaneous recovery,
stimulus generalization, stimulus discrimination, seconddiscrimination, and higher-order learning.
order conditioning, law of effect, instrumental
conditioning, operant conditioning, operant, reinforcer,
Predict the effects of operant conditioning (e.g., positive
reinforcement, negative reinforcement, punishment).
positive reinforcers, negative reinforcers, escape
conditioning, avoidance conditioning, discriminative
Predict how practice, schedules of reinforcement, and
stimuli, shaping, primary reinforcers, secondary
motivation will influence quality of learning.
reinforcers, continuous reinforcement schedule, partial
reinforcement schedule, fixed-ratio (FR) schedule,
Interpret graphs that exhibit the results of learning
variable-ratio (VR) schedule, fixed-interval (FI) schedule,
experiments.
variable-interval (VI) schedule, partial reinforcement
extinction effect, punishment, learned helplessness, latent
Provide examples of how biological constraints create
learning, cognitive map, insight, observational learning,
learning predispositions.
vicarious learning
Describe the essential characteristics of insight learning, latent
learning, and social learning.
Apply learning principles to explain emotional learning, taste
aversion, superstitious behavior, and learned helplessness.
Suggest how behavior modification, biofeedback, coping
strategies, and self-control can be used to address behavioral
problems.
Identify key contributors in the psychology of learning (e.g.,
Albert Bandura, John Garcia, Ivan Pavlov, Robert Rescorla,
B. F. Skinner, Edward Thorndike, Edward Tolman, John B.
Watson).
Required Texts
Supplemental Texts
Bernstein, D. A. (2006). Psychology (7th ed.). Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Janiszewski, C., & Warlop, L. The Influence of Classical
Conditioning on Procedures on Subsequent Attention to
the Conditioned Brand . Journal of Consumer Research, 20,
171-189. Retrieved May 15, 2014, from
http://warrington.ufl.edu/departments/mkt/docs/janisz
ewski/InfluenceClassical.pdf
Assessment Tasks
Genre Focus for Writing
Pre-Unit Performance Task
Informative
Mid-Unit Formative Assessment Task
Summative Assessment Tasks
Lesson Sequence/Learning Activities
Resources
Psychological Terminology/Observations Notebook
The Difference between Classical and Operant
Conditioning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6LEcM0E0io
The Big Bang Theory Operant Conditioning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guroaQRFsX4
Social Leaning Theory – Big Daddy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhe6p3Xkzt0
Two and a Half Men - Pavlov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEDxRCa_wfc
How to Train a Brain - Crash Course Psychology #11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG2SwE_6uVM