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updated 11/18/08

Behavior, Action, Pattern, Structure -- an exercise to help distinguish levels of analysis.

Causal Analysis: an exercise

Evaluating a Theory: a first approach --reading

Everyday Theories. Folklore about human behavior -- discussion sheet

Exercise in Language Acquisition. Korean for analysis -- worksheet

Exercise in Language Acquisition: Grammar Through Contrast & Comparison -- Worksheet

Evaluating a Presentation. Developing a scale-- class activity, evaluation tool.

From Test to Treatment to Policy: Rationales for Intervention -- discussion and methodology

Functional Analysis of Informal Models -- theory & worksheet

Intervention Rationale Worksheet

Keller's System of Personalized Instruction -- theoretical analysis: lecture

Human Cognition: the philosophical foundations -- a series of essays

Informal Functional Analysis -- a brief essay on formalizing behavioral folklore
 

Magic Pictures (illusion, hallucination, perception) -- class activity,  questions

Partitioning and Measurability -- theory & worksheet

Operationalization -- theory & practice sheet

Semester Project Example -- specifications

B. F. Skinner's Anti-Science - critique of his anti-empirical commitments

Theory Critique Assignment -- task directions

Theory Presentation & Evaluation-- assignment protocol

Theory and Program: Isomorphic Structures -- lecture and class activity problems.

Thinking. Do Computers Do It? -- critical essay

Three Interaction Analysis Systems- charts and observation grid

Using a Theory -- essay distinguishing between theory-in-use and user-theory

Varieties of Explanation &  Cause -- definitions, activity
 
 
 

 

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