Sentences with phrase «food as a reinforcer»

If you are using food as a reinforcer, it needs to be something extraordinary.

The best kind of food as a reinforcer is soft, small easy to chew bits so the dog can eat it fast and you can continue training.

When using food as a reinforcer, it is best to feed the cat meals on a schedule instead of free feeding.

Not exact matches

Training Secondary Reinforcers You can train a secondary reinforcer (pretty much anything else the dog learns to love), but that will likely involved using food for at least part of the training as you have to pair the new reinforcer with a primary one many times so it now has a new meaning for the dog.

Therefore, we can not say that all dogs need to be trained with a particular type of food, or that having tugs of war with the dog will work as reinforcers in each case.

We pair the marker signal with a good primary reinforcer such as food (a primary reinforcer is something an animal enjoys by itself — a secondary reinforcer is something an animal has learned to enjoy).

Moreover, we can give this signal at the moment of the desired behavior and then reward our dogs a few seconds later: we not only don't have to carry the food in hand, we can hide it, paving the way for removing constant rewards and also replacing food with other reinforcers such as play.

One group was trained with just a primary reinforcer (preferred food); one group was trained with a verbal marker accompanied by the primary reinforcer; and the final group was trained with a click sound — as promulgated by Pryor (1999) among others — followed by the primary reinforcer.

For many dogs, food rewards act as powerful reinforcers.

If a cat loves his regular food, you can use that as a reinforcer.

Very tasty food treats are the primary reinforcers at first because they are easy to use but many, many other reinforcements are used as well - from squeaky toys to playing games.

Used as a reinforcer, food can create brand new behaviors, and build complex chains of behaviors.

Food is a primary reinforcer, animals can't live without it, in the wild they must hunt (work) for it... and the «leader» controls it, in this case it is controlled by the «human pack leader, and the «other» human pack leader is a child, one in which the canine will learn to respect as well with you guidance.

Alternatively, if the cat did not display a preference (did not choose either food), the trainer arbitrarily chose the food to be offered as the reinforcer during the pre-assessment.

Food is the most commonly used reinforcer, but it is not the only effective one, and some pets will value a different reinforcer, such as a toy or a game, more than