Episode number 8 of Series “Discovering psychology”.
For every animal the name of the game is survival. In order to achieve this all animals have inbuilt reflexes or ready made reactions to threats and fixed action patterns such as migration. In addition animals have, to a lesser or greater degree, a capacity to learn from experience. In this program Philip Zimbardo looks at different theories of learning, from Pavlov’s classical conditioning, Thorndike’s instrumental conditioning to B.F. Skinner’s operant conditioning. Includes archival film of classical experiments.
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ACMI Identifier
303269
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - United States
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Learning, Psychology o
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Conditioned response
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Pavlov, Ivan Petrovitch, 1849-1936
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Thorndike, E. L. (Edward Lee), 1874-1949
People → Pavlov, Ivan Petrovitch, 1849-1936
People → Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-
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Sound
Colour
Colour
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VHS; Access Print (Section 1)