415 I Milbank Hall  Barnard College 3009 Broadway Columbia University New York City, NY 10027 Phone: 212 - 854 - 5312 Fax: 212 - 854 - 3601 email: balsam@columbia.edu Office hours: Wednesday 10:30 - 12:00

Education

1973 - 1975
    University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Ph.D., Psychology
1970 - 1973
    University of North Carolina, Greensboro, M.S., Psychology
1966 - 1970
    State University of New York, Stony Brook, B.A., Psychology

Research Interests:

The roles of experience in behavioral development. Lately, a lot of the work is trying to
answer the question of how new responses emerge during the lifetime of the individual.
Some of the work is on the development of pecking in Ring Doves and some of it analyzes
how humans learn a new motor sequence.

Recent Publications

Balsam, P. Paterniti, A., Zechowy, K. & Stokes, P. (Under review).   Outcomes and
behavioral
    variability: disappointment induced variation.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General.

Stokes, P.,  & Balsam, P.D (under review). A critical period for setting variability levels
in an
    operant task.

 Ye, S., Wild, J.M., Balsam, P. & Zeigler, H.P. (1998).  Organization of quinto-frontal
sturctures in
    the hatchling ring dove (Streptopelia risoria).  Brain Research, 788, 349-352.

Stokes, P., Mechner, F. & Balsam, P.D (in press).  Effects of different acquisition
    procedures on response variability.  Animal Learning & Behavior.

Balsam, P. , Deich, J., Ohyama, T. & Stokes, P.  (1998).  Origins of new behavior.
    In W. O’Donohue (Ed.)   Learning and Behavior Therapy.  Boston: Allyn & Bacon,
    pp 403-420.

Ohyama, T., Gibbon, J., Deich, J. & Balsam, P (in press).  Temporal control during
maintenance
    and extinction of keypecking in ring doves.  Animal Learning & Behavior.

Deich, J., Tankoos, J. & Balsam, P.D (1995).  Ontogenetic changes in the form of the
gaping at
    seed in the ring dove (Streptopelia risoria). Developmental Psychobiology, 28, 147-163.

Hirose, R. & Balsam, P. (1995).  Parent-Squab interaction during the transition from
dependent to
    independent feeding in the ring dove  (Streptopelia risoria).  Animal Behaviour, 50,
595-606.

Iskrant, K. & Balsam, P.D. (1994).  Social and Nutritional influences on feeding in ring
dove squab.
     Developmental Psychobiology, 27, 195-204.

Balsam, P. D. & Silver (1994).  Behavioral change as a result of experience:  Toward
principles of
    learning and development.  In J. Hogan & J. Bolhuis (Eds.), Causal Mechanisms of
Behavioral
    Development.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Deich, J. & Balsam, P. (1994).  Development of prehensile feeding in ring doves
(Streptopelia
    risoria).  In M. Davies & P. Green (Eds.), Perception and Motor Control in Birds.
    Heidelberg:  Springer-Verlag (pp. 160-181).
 

Courses:

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    Psychology of Learning: PSYCH BC 1105 Fall 1998 , PSYCH BC 1107 Fall 1998
    Proseminar in Learning: PSYCH G4001 Fall1998
    Animal Cognition
    Introduction to Statistics
    Theories of Learning