Summary: Learning Theory
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How are various techniques for training developed and handed out? And since when?
Since domestication
to subsequent generations through word of mouth and literature -
What are three more facts about animal training?
- Not sugnificant different over time
- succes of selective breeding and the capacity for habituation
- succesfull animal training over the millennia reflects the effective use of learning theory
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What does an animal learn to refer it as associated (linked)
Different properties of environment or different stimuli -
How does an animal modifies its behaviour?
Response accordingly -
What does positive reinforces increase?
Probability of behaviour being repeated -
What does negative reinforces increase?
Probability of response when they are removed -
What involves the subtraction of something (such as removal of pressure)
Negative reinforcement -
Why is timing crucial?
Otherwhise the behaviour is not linked to the reinforcement and learning will fail. Reinforcement should be there at the moment within 0.5 seonds is ideally -
When does a horse his reaction gives is predictability of the environment?
Once the horse starts respond -
Do control and predictibility improve horse welfare?
Yes
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