Skinner gave little thought to psychology. So, you quickly rush to check your cellphone every time it dings.As a college student, B. Depending on the conversation you are having, you might feeling excited or happy. For example, your phone dings to let you know you have a text message. This is the same thing that happens for humans on a day to day basis. Now, we can use our conditioned stimulus (clicker) to cause a response of happiness all on its own. This will turn our clicker into a conditioned stimulus because we have conditioned the dog to response to the clicker because the sound of the clicker predicts treats. The neutral stimulus in clicker training is the clicker because the clicker is meaningless to the dog until we condition the dog to it.įor the next step, we pair the neutral stimulus (clicker) with the unconditioned stimulus (treats). Once we have found our unconditioned stimulus, we need to use our neutral stimulus. In the case of clicker training, we are using an unconditioned stimulus (dog treats) to provide an unconditioned response (happiness, desire, tail wagging, etc.). He took note that the dogs started to salivate at the sound of the bell. So, why does this work? If you have ever taken a Psychology class, you have heard of Ivan Pavlov, who discovered classical conditioning by ringing a bell before feeding dogs. You can always use it to refresh a behavior later on, but for the most part you will not be using it again for that specific command. The clicker is taken away after your dog has learned the behavior. I also find it speeds things up and my dogs learn faster when I am using the clicker.
The clicker is just a tool to make training easier on you and your dog. The clicker is the tool of choice because it is easy, consistent, and cheap.ĭo not worry you will not have to use the clicker every time you train your dog. You could condition your dog with other things like you saying “yes”, a flashlight turning on or off, or hand signals. The clicker itself is only used because it makes a short, consistent sound. I also like to let the dog know they can cause the “click” to happen and it isn’t just a random event by clicking and treating for eye contact. You continue this pattern until your dog is predicting the “click”. You just “click”, give a treat after the noise. If the dog is not food driven, we may use toys or something else the dog enjoys.Ĭonditioning your dog to the clicker is fairly easy. Food is the easiest tool to harness, so most positive trainers use food. Primary reinforcers for animals are things like food, water, and sex. To do this, we would use a primary reinforcer. The clicker doesn’t mean anything to the dog at first, but by following Pavlov’s lead, we can condition the dog to be reinforced by the clicking sound. While clicker training, you use a clicker, which makes a “click” noise, to mark the behavior we want to reinforce. I have even seen fish learn from a modified version of clicker training. Clicker training, for those who are unfamiliar (and boy, are you missing out), is a positive reinforcement method that can be used to train any mammal, domesticated or wild.
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