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BF Skinner was one of the founders of what academic discipline?
✓ ~~~Operant conditioning / behaviorism
Positive reinforcement
✓ ~~~By adding something the animal wants; you increase the likely hood the behavior will
occur again
Negative reinforcement
✓ ~~~By removing something aversive, you increase the like hood of the behavior will occur
again
positive punishment
✓ ~~~By adding something the animal dislikes or finds aversive you decrease the like hood
of the behavior will occur again
negative punishment
✓ ~~~By removing something that the animal wants; you decrease the likely hood that the
behavior will occur again
What did Breland and Breland accomplish?
✓ ~~~The misbehavior of organisms
What is Bob Bailey known for?
✓ ~~~Running chicken camps
, What is Instinctual drift?
✓ ~~~the tendency of the animal to revert to instinctive behaviors that interfere with a
conditioned response
What is ethology?
✓ ~~~the study of animal behavior
what is reinforcement?
✓ ~~~to increase the probability of a behavior occurring in the future- it encourages the
target behavior
What do you have figure out before choosing a reinforce?
✓ ~~~are you trying to maintain or increase a desired behavior or trying to reduce or
eliminate a behavior
what is motivation?
✓ ~~~the desire to do things
Who is Ian Dunbar?
✓ ~~~A veterinarian, animal behaviorist, and writer
what did Ian Dunbar contribute to dog training?
✓ ~~~positive reinforcement and motivation
what is owner directed aggression in dogs?
✓ ~~~aggression that is directed to family members or house mates (members of the dogs
social group)
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