I am currently working as a marine mammal trainer and seriously considering to make a PhD in applied operant conditioning in dogs.
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I'm still here, but i confess that i got lost with so much of topic.
I would like to ear about ideas and sugestions to my PhD Thesis. Things that would be interesting to pet owners or dog sports participants.
My opinion only. Considering how much work a thesis is, I don't know that asking others for a topic is the way to go. I'm thinking that if you devote several months to in depth research, and reading what people here have to say on the subject, you will be able to pick a topic yourself that interests you and to which you will be willing to devote the kind of time a thesis demands. http://grad.berkeley.edu/publications/thegraduate/Reprints/thesistopic.pdf
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I am currently working as a marine mammal trainer and seriously considering to make a PhD in applied operant conditioning in dogs.
Quote: Jose Miguel Gome
I'm still here, but i confess that i got lost with so much of topic.
I would like to ear about ideas and sugestions to my PhD Thesis. Things that would be interesting to pet owners or dog sports participants.
My opinion only. Considering how much work a thesis is, I don't know that asking others for a topic is the way to go. I'm thinking that if you devote several months to in depth research, and reading what people here have to say on the subject, you will be able to pick a topic yourself that interests you and to which you will be willing to devote the kind of time a thesis demands. http://grad.berkeley.edu/publications/thegraduate/Reprints/thesistopic.pdf
Oh I dunno, I could ask and engineer working at MIT how to fix my plumbing but I think I'd be better off asking somebody who does it for a living. I would say a little field research is in order and then take it back to the lab. It would be a good excuse to go to SeaWorld or Busch Gardens for the animal acts
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Jose Miguel, wish you the best on this subject, Operant Conditioning, is new to me at least in words. As far as I see, there is a balance of that technique, and what the handler thinks is best at the moments of discipline, It works, some handlers are better at it, some dogs fit the bill, but there are two side to everything.
What do some dogs care of withholding a piece of meat or they favorite toy, depending on what you are teaching also, sit, come, stay, etc are all normal easy things to relate to. but what about more complicated task, some handlers or dog can try your Operant Conditioning patients, then what do you do, revert back to what you know. I am speaking as a rookie at this training. Good luck, and wish you the best. Dan
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. ~Josh Billings
Operant conditioning works for dogs the same as it does for humans, whales, dolphins, chimps, birds, insects or any other living entity. How do I get what I want/need/makes me comfortable?
Repeated enough times it becomes the action of default before anything else.
Didn't know if whales eat birds or not.
Shrug, doesn't really matter enre to operant conditioning. In fact your point almost supports the premise that oc controls much of how things work enre to how behavior is learned.
Can the whale be taught to ignore the bird? How about a seal?
I'll have to defer to one in with a doctorate in mammalian marine training there.
However it does bring to the fore exactly what is the range that can be limited or extented for any species when oc is thrown into the equation.
Dennis,
Though $200 would be nice, I'd be happy if they stopped me and gave me a ticket to attend their next training session for their dogs.
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