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Why clicking and correction don’t mix

The Poisoned Cue: Positive and Negative Discriminative Stimuli By Karen Pryor on 06/25/2002 Why clicking and correction don’t mix Behavior analysts refer to a learned stimulus that triggers an operant behavior as a ‘discriminative stimulus.’  The behaviorists do not, as … Continue reading

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Clicker Training in the Equine World: An Interview with Alexandra Kurland

Clicker Training in the Equine World:   An Interview with Alexandra Kurland  By Julie Gordon on 12/01/2010 Alexandra Kurland has been training horses and teaching since the mid-1980s. In the early 1990s, after reading Karen Pryor’s Don’t Shoot the Dog, … Continue reading

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