If
you delay rewarding a behavior, your dog will forget what you're rewarding him for.
Not exact matches
Caudate responses to
reward anticipation associated with
delay discounting
behavior in healthy youth.
Dogs over a year old have made connections between
behavior and
reward, even if that
reward is slightly
delayed.
After all, you are trying to teach your dog to
delay the self -
rewarding behavior of eliminating until given the opportunity to do so in the place that you prefer.
At first, he reinforces with click and treat when she starts to sit, then, when she understands that «starting to sit» brings a
reward, he waits to click and treat until she sits and then expands the
behavior into a sit of several seconds by
delaying the click and treat a bit.
One index of such
behavior is termed
delay discounting, which reflects an individual's relative preference for smaller, immediate
rewards over larger
rewards delayed in time (Green and Myerson, 2004).