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It's the ultimate way to pull off a sting: Teach a group of ordinary honeybees to ignore flowers and, instead, focus on vapors from explosives used in bombs. Then send the bees off in teams to sniff out terrorists. Or track the molecular trail of illicit drugs, or even point police to a rotting corpse.

http://humansubjects.energy.gov/news/articles/09272009.21StingOperation_ac.pdf

Basic Concepts in Classical Conditioning

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This collection of documents aims to explain the systemic part of this approach. It is based mainly on a lecture in comparative psychology kindly provided by Durham psychologist Bob Kentridge. All documents belonging to this lecture are marked as such on the bottom of each document.

http://brembs.net/classical/

 

This is actually a hard topic to teach. In part becasue it seems easy, however the concepts are easily confused. How would you go about putting an introduction to Classical Conditioning together?

http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/behsys/classcnd.html

 

Behavioral Adaptation - Presentation Slides

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What do you make of these? How do they relate to what we have been studying? How do they relate to the material in your reference text? Are you familiar with the graph to the extent that you can describe what it is 'saying'?

http://www.jsu.edu/depart/psychology/sebac/fac-sch/100/If1.html

Animal Trainer's Operant Conditioning

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This page attempts to explain Operant Conditioning, and promote the use of Positive Reinforcement and Negative Punishment in animal training.

 http://www.wagntrain.com/OC/