 How Dogs Learn
ISBN: 978-0-87605-371-3
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208 pages
May 1999
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Foreword (Jack Michael, Ph.D.).
List of Charts.
Introduction.
PART ONE: A History of Animal Training.
Chapter 1: The Scientists: How operant conditioning developed in the lab.
Chapter 2: The Trainers: How dog training evolved to embrace operant conditioning.
PART TWO: The Basic Principles of Behavior.
Chapter 3: Reinforcement: What dogs like, what they want to avoid, what they'll work for.
Chapter 4: Extinction: If I ignore it, it will go away.
Chapter 5: Punishment: Stop that!
Chapter 6: Stimulus Control: Just tell me what to do.
PART THREE: Behavioral Diagnostics: Why Does the Dog Do that?
Chapter 7: Respondent Conditioning: Pavlov and his famous salivating dogs.
Chapter 8: Functional Analysis and Behavioral Diagnostics: What's causing the problem?
Chapter 9: Medical and Environmental Causes of Behavior: Tell me where it hurts.
Chapter 10: Other Training Issues You Need to Know About: Every dog is an individual.
PART FOUR: Increasing Behaviors: Teaching Your Old Dog New Tricks.
Chapter 11: Shaping: You're getting warmer.
Chapter 12: Prompting and Fading: Can you give me a hint?
Chapter 13: Chaining: Building behavior sequences.
Chapter 14: Using Conditioned Reinforcement: Click here for more options.
PART FIVE: Decreasing Behaviors: Dealing with Canine Delinquents.
Chapter 15: Extinction in Action: Don't just do something, stand there.
Chapter 16: Differential Reinforcement: More of this, less of that.
Chapter 17: Antecedent Control: An ounce of prevention.
Chapter 18: Using Punishment: A question of ethics.
Epilogue.
References.
About the Authors.
Index.
List of Charts.
Introduction.
PART ONE: A History of Animal Training.
Chapter 1: The Scientists: How operant conditioning developed in the lab.
Chapter 2: The Trainers: How dog training evolved to embrace operant conditioning.
PART TWO: The Basic Principles of Behavior.
Chapter 3: Reinforcement: What dogs like, what they want to avoid, what they'll work for.
Chapter 4: Extinction: If I ignore it, it will go away.
Chapter 5: Punishment: Stop that!
Chapter 6: Stimulus Control: Just tell me what to do.
PART THREE: Behavioral Diagnostics: Why Does the Dog Do that?
Chapter 7: Respondent Conditioning: Pavlov and his famous salivating dogs.
Chapter 8: Functional Analysis and Behavioral Diagnostics: What's causing the problem?
Chapter 9: Medical and Environmental Causes of Behavior: Tell me where it hurts.
Chapter 10: Other Training Issues You Need to Know About: Every dog is an individual.
PART FOUR: Increasing Behaviors: Teaching Your Old Dog New Tricks.
Chapter 11: Shaping: You're getting warmer.
Chapter 12: Prompting and Fading: Can you give me a hint?
Chapter 13: Chaining: Building behavior sequences.
Chapter 14: Using Conditioned Reinforcement: Click here for more options.
PART FIVE: Decreasing Behaviors: Dealing with Canine Delinquents.
Chapter 15: Extinction in Action: Don't just do something, stand there.
Chapter 16: Differential Reinforcement: More of this, less of that.
Chapter 17: Antecedent Control: An ounce of prevention.
Chapter 18: Using Punishment: A question of ethics.
Epilogue.
References.
About the Authors.
Index.
