Thanks Christopher. I'll write him. Thanks for the comics, I actually already use 2 of the 3. ~ Kevin

Sniffy and CyberRat were the worst and so much slower in terms of literal movement and acquisition than real lab rats. You probably already know about the videos on YouTube that Dale Swartenztruber does--he's got a few on habituation, Pavlovian/classical/respondent conditioning, and operant conditioning.

• https://youtu.be/4TyYX5C8uuI (shaping lever pressing)
• https://youtu.be/oHkS0DbIZZQ (spontaneous recovery)

Jeff Wilson at Albion College was doing Pavlovian conditioning with earthworms as a class project many years ago, but I'm not sure how much progress they made. For something slightly less basic but still Pavlovian conditioning, you could do some evaluative conditioning with fake, neutral product brands but real celebrities and have students rate how likely they are to buy each product in a pre/post design (e.g., rate product without celebrity and then again after "pairing" with the celebrity). For example, Jared+sandwich shop = probably not likely to buy but LeBron James+shoes = probably likely to buy.

Full disclosure: I used a textbook that I contributed to for my Introduction to Psychology class, and we authors included demonstrations that students could work through within the electronic text itself instead of having to generate a bunch of in-class demos (plus, it was an online class).

Thanks Melissa!  I hadn’t heard of CyberRa (behaviorism / learning theory is not my area).  Nice videos.  I especially like the idea of pairing products with celebrities. I can probably set up an online activity within Moodle and share results with students in class, so it’s workable for a large classroom.  ~ Kevin

Thank you Andrew & Leonhard for recommending this discussion question - positive reinforcement!  :-)  For others looking for ideas, one useful source is APA’s Teaching Psychology free E-books (link below).  A recent one presents labs for high school Psychology classes, but I don’t see why many wouldn’t also work very well for college.  The chapter on learning has 6 labs.  I especially like the lab with lemonade powder to classically condition a pairing of background music to salivating.  Best wishes, Kevin

http://teachpsych.org/ebooks/promotingpsychscience

Hello Kevin. You can use direct experiments into the class-room. They are enough videos in Youtube and Vimeo with experiences of students showing classic and operant conditioning. In the class-room you can use an smarthphone app to record the student's pulse and some images to associate with a great noise with buzzer. In other examples, you can use your voice aloud (or some astonishing event) to produce the alert reaction of student, and associate first a specific word, after some essay they will chek their alert reactions only saying that word. You can imaging some similar experiencial experimental to exemplify the students in their bodies the learning processes.