PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Seaworld San Diego, List Of Civilisations In The Culture Series, Reinforcement

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 332
• Professor: Richard Koestner

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Modern love: what shamu taught me about a happy marriage by amy sutherland. Eventually it hit me that the same techniques might work on that stubborn but lovable species, the. The central lesson i learned from exotic animal trainers is that i should reward behavior i like and ignore behavior i don"t. After all, you don"t get a sea lion to balance a ball on the end of this nose by nagging. Need to know that how any reaction you give can be reinforcing. Shaping: i was using what trainers call approximations, rewarding the small steps toward learning a whole new behavior. With the baboon you first reward a hop, then a bigger hop, then an even bigger hop. With scott the husband, i began to praise every small act every time: if he drove just a mile an hour slower, tossed one pair of shorts into the hamper, or was on time for anything.