Showing posts with label Skinner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skinner. Show all posts
Monday, October 02, 2017

Clicker Training Does Not Require Empathy

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Dog training is not complex , and it does not require psychic abilities. Of course some people think that must be the case! After all...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

How to Train a Cheetah

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A rabbit-coursing Cheetah in the UK, circa 1937 . I am always a bit amused by the folks who talk about scientific dog training. What...
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Thursday, April 01, 2010

Some Animals are More Hardwired Than Others

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In an earlier post I dared to ask " Who invented animal training ? " and went on to detail the work of Keller and Marian Breland ...
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How Google Really Works

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It seems I am not the only one writing about B.F Skinner and operant conditioning . This morning I was sent a link to Google's descript...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Who Invented Animal Training?

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Marian Breland and Keller Breland, March 15, 1955. Source Who invented animal training? The question is silly on its face. Animal training...
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Friday, March 05, 2010

Habituation and Extinction at the End of a Leash

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Here's another Cesar Millan episode to complement yesterday's offering. The dog in question here is a Korean Jindo , which is a sp...
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Monday, March 01, 2010

Calm and Assertive Clicker Training

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In the world of dog training, there are two camps that seem to be at war -- pure click-and-treat dog trainers and everyone else. This ...
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Thursday, February 14, 2008

A Short History of Dog Training

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People tend to think the way things are done now is how they were done forever. Not entirely so, especially in the arena of dog training....
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