PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Animal Training, Reinforcement, Parsley
8 Oct 2011
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Beginning here from chapter 3 effects of environments on our behaviour and our personality. What shamu taught me about a happy marriage . Shamu killer whale, does stunts for large audiences. Trained animals using operant conditioning, marine animal trainer focus almost exclusively on positive reinforcement. The most e-mailed article of 2006: modern love: what shamu taught me about a happy marriage by amy. After all, you don"t get a sea lion to balance a ball on the end of its nose by nagging. The same goes for the american husband: even though you might think your ignoring behaviour you don"t like, you are indicating non-verbally that don"t qualify as ignoring, they could be nagging and they are reinforcing the negative behaviours. 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.
