FidoLearnsBestPDFs/fidoe learns pt4
How Fido Learns Best
How Fido Learns Best Part 4 Veterinary Technician Academy Wild West Veterinary Conference 2008 Suzanne Hetts, Ph.D. Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
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How Fido Learns Best
Operant Conditioning Consequence Give It
Remove It
Good Thing
Positive (+) Reinforcement (Behavior )
Negative (-) Punishment (Behavior )
Bad Thing
Positive (+) Punishment (Behavior )
Negative (-) Reinforcement (Behavior )
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How Fido Learns Best
Negative Reinforcement • About escaping or avoiding • Spontaneous examples – Aggression – Noise phobias – Tipper’s urinating on the rug
• Resistant to extinction
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How Fido Learns Best
Negative Reinforcement • In training • Boundary systems based on negative reinforcement • Anti-bark collars – Quiet is negatively reinforced
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How Fido Learns Best
Negative Reinforcement • Boundary system has warning cue • Bark collar usually doesn’t
“Setting dog up” in this way is NOT justified
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How Fido Learns Best
NOT Justifications for Use of Aversives
Because we’ve always done it that way Because we don’t know what else to do, or how to use positive techniques Because we are angry To ‘teach the pet a lesson’ Because we have to ‘dominate’ the dog Because we can Because we saw it on TV
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How Fido Learns Best
Applications - In the Clinic
Attempting to handle an over-active, wiggly, struggling puppy or poorly trained dog
How to use positive reinforcement? How to make use of negative punishment? Why does positive punishment often exacerbate the situation? dog
doesn’t perceive it as punishment causes additional emotional arousal HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
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How Fido Learns Best
Operant conditioning – Is this the right tool for the job? • P+ good behavior is a great gig – if you can get it! • Ignoring (P-) behaviors will not always make them go away – other R+s • Many types of P+ will increase emotional arousal and exacerbate the behavior HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
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How Fido Learns Best
Questions and Examples • Pestering, attention seeking • Dog isn’t receiving attention for good behavior
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How Fido Learns Best
Classical Conditioning – Animal learns the association between 2 events
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How Fido Learns Best
Classical Conditioning – one stimulus (Conditioned, CS – can opener) predicts the occurrence of the second (Unconditioned, UCS - food) – Best initial learning occurs with 1:1 CS:UCS – Every sound of can opener = food
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How Fido Learns Best
Classical Conditioning Not dependent on pet’s behavior Leash predicts what? Veterinary clinic predicts what? Cloudy skies predict what? Other examples? HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
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How Fido Learns Best
Classical Conditioning • Creation of secondary reinforcer is classical conditioning – Click = treat – Praise = petting
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How Fido Learns Best
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
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How Fido Learns Best
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
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How Fido Learns Best
Classical Conditioning • Emotional reactions are not very amenable to operant conditioning • Are more amenable to classical conditioning
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
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How Fido Learns Best
Our in-home visits – at the clinic too! Toss treats Changes how dog feels about us Does NOT reward growling behavior Separate emotion from the behavior Comforting a fearful child doesn’t make him more afraid
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How Fido Learns Best
You too, can have a well trained dog
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How Fido Learns Best Part 4 Veterinary Technician Academy Wild West Veterinary Conference 2008 Suzanne Hetts, Ph.D. Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
Operant Conditioning Consequence Give It
Remove It
Good Thing
Positive (+) Reinforcement (Behavior )
Negative (-) Punishment (Behavior )
Bad Thing
Positive (+) Punishment (Behavior )
Negative (-) Reinforcement (Behavior )
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
Negative Reinforcement • About escaping or avoiding • Spontaneous examples – Aggression – Noise phobias – Tipper’s urinating on the rug
• Resistant to extinction
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
Negative Reinforcement • In training • Boundary systems based on negative reinforcement • Anti-bark collars – Quiet is negatively reinforced
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
Negative Reinforcement • Boundary system has warning cue • Bark collar usually doesn’t
“Setting dog up” in this way is NOT justified
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
NOT Justifications for Use of Aversives
Because we’ve always done it that way Because we don’t know what else to do, or how to use positive techniques Because we are angry To ‘teach the pet a lesson’ Because we have to ‘dominate’ the dog Because we can Because we saw it on TV
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
Applications - In the Clinic
Attempting to handle an over-active, wiggly, struggling puppy or poorly trained dog
How to use positive reinforcement? How to make use of negative punishment? Why does positive punishment often exacerbate the situation? dog
doesn’t perceive it as punishment causes additional emotional arousal HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
Operant conditioning – Is this the right tool for the job? • P+ good behavior is a great gig – if you can get it! • Ignoring (P-) behaviors will not always make them go away – other R+s • Many types of P+ will increase emotional arousal and exacerbate the behavior HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
Questions and Examples • Pestering, attention seeking • Dog isn’t receiving attention for good behavior
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
Classical Conditioning – Animal learns the association between 2 events
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
Classical Conditioning – one stimulus (Conditioned, CS – can opener) predicts the occurrence of the second (Unconditioned, UCS - food) – Best initial learning occurs with 1:1 CS:UCS – Every sound of can opener = food
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
Classical Conditioning Not dependent on pet’s behavior Leash predicts what? Veterinary clinic predicts what? Cloudy skies predict what? Other examples? HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
Classical Conditioning • Creation of secondary reinforcer is classical conditioning – Click = treat – Praise = petting
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
Classical Conditioning • Emotional reactions are not very amenable to operant conditioning • Are more amenable to classical conditioning
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
Our in-home visits – at the clinic too! Toss treats Changes how dog feels about us Does NOT reward growling behavior Separate emotion from the behavior Comforting a fearful child doesn’t make him more afraid
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
How Fido Learns Best
You too, can have a well trained dog
HelpingFido.com HelpingFido.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com BehaviorEducationNetwork.com
HelpingKitty.com HelpingKitty.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com ©AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com
