MSC 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Marine Mammal, Little Albert Experiment, Rebar
12 Nov 2016
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Why do we train animals: mental and physical stimulation, encourage them to participate in their own health and husbandry. Less stressful than forcing things: companionship, police, military, and rescue work, therapy animals, entertainment purposes/inspire passion for a species, education of people, research. What is behavior: anything an animal does using muscles, glands, or electrical impulses. Also called a response: dead man"s test, behavior analysis. If a dead man can do it, it is not a behavior. The study of animal behavior: all behaviors are influenced by what happened after the behavior. Behavior modification: use of behavior principles to shape behavior, basis behind training. Behaviorism movement: same principles of classical conditioning applied to people, little albert experiment. The a-b-c"s of training: antecedent the event that immediately precedes/evokes a. Cues, signals, environmental stimuli behavioral response: behavior, consequences. Anything that happens immediately after behavior, can be positive or negative, and either increases or decreases behavior.
