Video Clips on Behaviorism Experiments

Video Clips on Behaviorism Experiments

Name: ______Date: ______

Directions: Answer the following questions after watching the video clips. I will provide time to write your thoughts and disucss as a class.

Classical Conditioning Roommate:

1.  After watching this video, write out and label correctly the UCR (unconditioned response), UCS (unconditioned stimulus), CS (conditioned stimulus) and CR (conditioned response).

Bandura’s BoBo Doll Experiment:

2.  What was the “old” view about how people would react by watching aggressive behaviors?

3.  What type of operant conditioning is begin practiced when parents use violence to change childrens’ behaviors? (use the Operant Conditioning 4 square) ______

4.  Bandura’s findings taught us about a behavioral term called “modeling”. Describe in your own words what this means.

5.  Besides parents, what other factors could teach children to become violent?

Little Albert

1.  What type of conditioning does this experiment show? (classical or operant) ______

2.  What does John Watson come to believe about human fear based on his study?

Stanley Milgrim’s Electric Shock Study:

6.  What percentage of participants in the study willingly shocked people at the highest levels? ______

7.  What did Milgrim’s study teach us about the ways human behave with regards to authority figures?

8.  In what ways might “learned helplessness” have affected the subjects’ willingness to do “what is right” in this study?

Stanford Prison Experiment:

9.  Before watching the video: Do you think your morals and values shape the way you would behave in group situations where people are being harmed? Why or why not?

10.  Why were the guards given sunglasses?

11.  Why do you think those prison volunteers were subjected to the fake arrest process?

12.  What might this experiment teach us about humans’ willingness to stand up against abuse in their lives?

13.  What might this experiment teach us about putting people in positions of power?

14.  What does the Stanford Prison study teach you about the actions of the American soldiers in Iraq just a few years ago?

The Marshmallow Test

15.  What does the marshmallow experiment tell us about the kids that were able to wait for additional marshmallows?

16.  What are some ways kids/adults can be taught to delay gratification?