Jose Miguel Gome Webboard User Reg: 11-11-2008
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Hello people.
I am currently working as a marine mammal trainer and seriously considering to make a PhD in applied operant conditioning in dogs.
I would like to know your opinion on interesting things i could study related to that.
Some of the ideas i came to until now are:
The use of a verbal bridge vs a mechanic bridge vs no bridge (direct deliver of the reward);
The advantages and disavantages of using an end of session signal;
Strictly positive training vs positive training with corrections.
Do you have any other ideas that could result in an interesting scientific research?
I look forward to seeing a published study examining stress levels and degree of compliance in purely positive vs positive with corrections style training.
A study examining whether *all* animals in a species respond equally well to each type of training, or whether different animals within the species need different training approaches.
Dennis Jones Webboard User Reg: 06-13-2004
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Your just gonna hafta dumb it down for some of us Jose. imho positive training only is great for teaching tricks and teaching puppies basic obedience skills along with getting in tune with your dog and the dog in tune with you but when it comes to safety issues and working with dogs in drive, you have to use correction for non compliance of a learned and practiced skill. The Recall comes to mind. "Roxie!" is my preparatory command, she will turn and face me and wait for instruction, I will tell her "Here" or "Van" or "Kennel" or "Crate" or "Pool". I taught this using Pos Reinforcement but I also taught her there was consequences for not complying using an electronic collar. Once she starts complying I mark it with a very distintive "YES" and reward with praise, ball or food.
See if I was doing something like this as a teacher I would do the difference in academic outcomes in kids who were taught to print and kids who primarily use cursive. It has been on my mind for a long time and observing these two groups i really feel that kids who use cursive do so much better because writing cursive is much faster so they can take better notes and do their work faster etc. So I guess my point is you are going to be doing this for the next two years at least and you need to pick something that you will love to do and you are curious about already. It's kind of hard for other people to chime in I think.
In order to make the study ever more worthwhile, teach both groups shorthand for taking notes. See if 'the feeling' that one does better than another holds water.
In any case, with or without shorthand, if one actually does progress better there can be so many other variables to account for the difference, I don't how you'd be able to link writing styles to the equation.
Nice sarcasm. But you are right about the variables. Are you a teacher by the way? How do you know if you are not in the classroom and don't see it every day for years?
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........sry Dennis!!!!!! 
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