Don't shoot the dog notes

Don't shoot the dog book notes

Oppressions/resentment/sullenness may be overcome with large (10x) suprize positive reinforcer

A signal deliberatly presented before of during delivery of a primary reinforcer
Separates & pinpoints timing of an action even when giving primary reinforcer is impossible
Shouldn't be used unless training
Train it by pairing it with out reinforcers
Conditioned negative reinforcer should be a warning prior to punishedment, not during.

Constant reinformce is while learning
Switch to variable reinforcement to maintain a behaviour
Gradually move to longer variable reinforcement
Once on variable reinforcement, the behaviour can be shaped with variable reinforcement

Variable instead of fixed schedules are best.
Too long may lead to extinction. (Metabolic boundary: reward is not worth the effort)
Long reinforcement schedule can lead to slow start, like procrastination, before starting the first action
A slow start can be overcome with a reinforcer for starting

Shaping: Teach successive approximations to desied behaviour.
(no term): Establish imtermediate goals. starting with a behaviour that already occurs sometimes

Raise criteria in encrements small enough that the subject always has a realistic chance for reinforcement
Train one aspect of a behaviour at a time; don't try to shape 2 criteria simultaneously
Put the current response on a veriable schedule of reinforement before adding or raising criteria
When When introducing new criterion, temporarily relax that old one
Plan ahead of your subject, so you're prepared
Stick to one shaper per behaviour
If one shaping procedure is not eliciting progress, find another
Don't interrupt a training session gratuitously; that constitutes punishment
If behaviour deteriorates, "go back to kindergardge"; quickly review the whole process with a series of easily earned reinforcers
End each session on a high note, if possible; but in any case quit qile you're ahead

Mimicry: kids can learn through watching and mimicry, dogs are bad, cats are good
Targeting: Teach an animal to touch it's nose to a target. Then you can elicit lots of other behaviour by moving the target appropriatly
Modeling: Physically putting the subject through the motions. Needs to have shaping included to shape the skill and fade the modeling

Formally people will accept instructions then shaping.
Informally, people resent being shaped. Especially with behavours they are currenlty endorsing through emotions
Don't talk about reinforcement unless tou have the subject's permission
If you talk about it, you are bribing them and they learn to take actions for rewards. Not learning the impusle preverberally.
Don't brag about it

Triggers/commands are just a stimuli/cue
Once a behaviour is trained, reinforce it only when it's cued
Introduce a cue, the cue as the behaviour is starting & reinforce completing, alternate between cue and no-cue, reinforcing only cued behaviour, then shape the behaviour
Once your learning understands the rules, new cues can be attached to new behaviours practically instantly this way.

Four conditions to perfect stimulus control
1. Behaviour always occurs immediatly after the stimulus.
2. Behaviour never occurs, intraining or work, without the stimulus.
3. The behaviour never occurs on response to a different stimulus
4. No other behaviours occur in reposnse to this stimulus
Pick signlas that can be easily perceived
Possible for, multiple signals for the same stimulus, and multiple behaviours for the same stimulus
Nonprimary signals just need to have enough magnitude to be noticed
Shouting isn't useful unless it's intentional unpleasant aversion
Once signal is trained you can fade it until it's barely perceptible, and still get the same response. Like a counting horse
Speed of response can be trained, but a steady response-time criterion should be used.
Behaviour chains should be trained backwards. Give > return > pickup > Go go > Sit and wait for frizbee to be thrown