MALKA213 Laboratory Exercises — Experimental Analysis of Behavior Course description

This course will show how behavioral principles and concepts from respondent and operant conditioning are applied in research and practice.

Coursework requirements from MALK4000-401, MALK4000-403, MALKA211 and MALKA212 or equivalent must be approved to participate and submit coursework requirements in MALKA213.

On successful completion of the course, the student has the following learning outcomes classified as knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student can

• describe the logic and the methodology of experimental designs

Skills

The student can

• demonstrate shaping of different types of behavior in animals by using computer software
• design and conduct experiments, either as single-case research designs or group designs
• write a manuscript in accordance with principles in the current edition of the APA manual, using data from the Experiments
• use the principles for citations and references as given in the current edition of the APA manual

Competence

The student can

• ask and argue for relevant research questions
• describe methods of Experiments
• present results from Experiments
• discuss the results achieved in an experiment

The course includes all-day seminars, hands-on exercises and discussion of different papers. Practical exercises are essential to this course and the exercises include the use of the software to conduct an experiment, and to write up the results from the experiment as a scientific paper. Students must have a laptop with the required software installed and means of payment for user license.

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• None

Individual written project examination in the form of a scientific article, on a topic approved by the course instructor, of maximum 50.000 keystrokes. Students may submit their exams in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English. 

All

Grade scale A-F

One internal and one external examiner will assess all exams.