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Behaviour fundamentals: Filling the Behaviour Change Tool Box
Behaviour Fundamentals: Filling the Behaviour Change Tool Box Susan Freidman, Dept. of Psychology, Utah State University, Journal of Applied Companion Animal Behaviour, 3(1), 36-40 Click below Behavior Fundamentals, S. G. Friedman
What Makes a Reward Rewarding?
This is a fantastic article by Kay Laurence about rewards. Although written about dogs all of what she writes is very applicable to horses. Enjoy ! Amanda S.M.A.A.R.T. Horse Company What Makes a Reward Rewarding? By Kay Laurence on 10/01/2011 … Continue reading
Clever Hans Revisited
THE OTHER END OF THE LEASH Clever Hans Revisited by Patricia McConnell You probably know the story of Clever Hans, the horse owned by a math teacher named von Osten who decided to teach his horse to do math in … Continue reading
Desensitisation or Counter Conditioning?
Desensitisation or Counter Conditioning By Amanda Martin, The S.M.A.A.R.T. Horse Company Ltd There are two different ways to deal with behavioural problems. One is to de-sensitise and the other is to counter condition. Usually, the hardest part of tackling a … Continue reading
What is a Clicker Trainer ?
What is a Clicker Trainer ? What is clicker training? A question I am asked almost daily is “what is clicker training?”. It’s a fairly straight forward question, and as my experience, knowledge and understanding of clicker training and the … Continue reading
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What are Habituation and Sensitisation ?
What are Habituation and Sensitisation ? Habituation is the gradual reduction or waning of a response to a non-harmful stimulus in the environment (e.g. plastic bags) with frequent presentation of the stimulus. Successful habituation is dependent on the following; the … Continue reading
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Tagged amanda martin, classical conditioning, clicker training, Conditioned emotional response, counter conditioning, desensitisation, habituation, horse, horse training, Learning, long term potentiation, Reinforcement, saliency, sensitisation, sensitisation of behaviours, Sensitization, smaarthorses
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Cerebral Delights
Cerebral Delights The amygdala, a part of the brain known for its role in fear, also helps people spot rewards — and go after them By Susan Gaidos February 26th, 2011; Vol.179 #5 (p. 22)
Clicker Training Horses – Positive Reinforcement
Clicker Training Horses Positive Reinforcement Adding Nice Things Positive reinforcement (+R) is about giving the animal something nice (appetitive) when they do something we ask; reinforcing the behaviour that happened. In learning theory terms, positive means ‘adding’, and reinforcement … Continue reading
Understanding Some Learning Theory – Positive and Negative Reinforcement
Clicker Training Horses Positive and Negative Reinforcement When Skinner defined the 4 quadrants of operant conditioning all those years ago (early 1930s) he noted that positive reinforcement is superior to punishment in changing behavior from an ethical and efficacy … Continue reading
Clicker Training Horses – Bribery
Clicker Training Horses Bribery We talked about bribery before and what that produces in a horse versus using positive reinforcement (+R). This time we want to talk about the learning theory behind bribery versus +R. Bribery – Learning Theory … Continue reading
