Posts Tagged ‘Positive Reinforcement Training’
Is Touch Rewarding?
Written by Hiddenhorse on 01/09/2010 – 10:59 pm -If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
The keyword in the title of this post is ‘rewarding’, and what that really means is, if something is rewarding, it leads to an emotional reward or as a behaviourist would put it an emotional reinforcement. So what sort of things reward horses? Read more »
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How positive reinforcement training works
Written by Hiddenhorse on 27/08/2010 – 12:40 pm -And why it works so well…
I believe positive reinforcement, and training methods based on it’s principles, are the next stage in the evolution of the long relationship between horses and humans. Here are the reasons why I make this claim… Read more »
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Compliance or Learning to be Helpless
Written by Hiddenhorse on 24/08/2010 – 3:50 pm -This post deals with the third reaction to coercion in the form of negative reinforcement and positive punishment (threats and increasing pressure), it also deals with coercion in the form of negative punishment, where something positive, usually a ‘freedom’ is taken away. Different causes but the reaction to these coercive methods is always the same. There are many names for this reaction, such as freeze, learned helplessness or, as I put it, compliance. Read more »
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It’s not about training, – it’s about trust
Written by Hiddenhorse on 05/04/2010 – 3:07 pm -It’s not about training, it’s about trust….
In the last post ‘The politics of join-up’, I looked at the join-up process primarily as an behavior based on negative reinforcement, I also looked at how join-up was a ritual that is part of the repertoire of ‘political’ behaviors which allow a horse to join a new herd or group. What I didn’t ask was why would a horse want to do this? Read more »
Tags: Choices, Decisions, Emotions, Join-up, Positive Reinforcement Training, PRT, Training, TrustPosted in Clicker Training, Training, join up | 1 Comment »
Clicker Taining Principles 3
Written by Hiddenhorse on 23/03/2010 – 11:44 am -How to do it
When we clicker train an animal we are using two types of learning. Don’t worry too much about the names but it is important to understand the principles here. Read more »
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Clicker Training Principles 2
Written by Hiddenhorse on 22/03/2010 – 11:10 am -Clicker training is something that has been around for many years, it is also known as positive reinforcement training, (PRT). This is a more accurate name that describes the basic mechanism. We have three elements here: Positive, this means that PRT works only with positive emotions. Reinforcement this means that behaviors that are reinforced are likely to reoccur and training which implies some form of learning is taking place. Read more »
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