This note will certainly not be acceptable, but it remains my personal thoughts about the "reinforcement " - understood in the context dog.
must start first with a concept: - "I want the dog do something that I ask you, regardless of the thought of the animal. "
Already through these words you could open a discourse articulated a vision that requires anthropocentric animal (the dog certainly seen as a sentient being, but subordinate in terms of the report).
In such a context, it goes without saying that the command / response (the word "request " often preferred to the word "command " does not change the meaning if not for human morality) must need to "strengthen" to obtain something that would otherwise not be done by the dog on its own. But what
happens in nature between dogs (because that's where we observe them)?
As social beings, nature supplied the rule - called "group dynamics" - which allow them to interact and live among them (for us humans there would - the conditional is a must - the laws).
The mother teaches the puppies then the things from childhood, leading to the "period of socialization" (with other adult dogs, who have already had occasion to clarify each other on the "skills" and the status hierarchy) which will be determined in terms of experiential learning and the following year. This process takes very
more than you might think (as well as being dynamic), and it is in time / human needs (completely out of balance to the mind of a dog) that lurk problems.
The rules of the dogs are not human ones - as ever - but living in close contact with us by sharing the relational time and everything else, we are witnessing the "clash" of two very different worlds (in terms of needs and ways).
The puppy is actually torn away from her group membership, is chosen - with a lot of future expectations - (and maybe the new owner is not even so much a genius), he was put on a collar, a leash ... and from that moment his life will take una forma “interspecifica”, la quale lo OBBLIGHERA' a mettersi continuamente sul piano umano (anche nella più fortunata delle ipotesi).
Questa è la nuda e cruda realtà dei cani; il resto è buonismo, morale, e uso improprio delle parole che affondano le loro radici nel “darsela ad intendere” o nel “girare intorno alla questione”.
Il concetto di “rinforzo” ha infatti a che vedere con la parte addestrativa dell'animale, non relazionale.
Una zooantropologa mi disse un giorno che non c'era niente di scandaloso nel “premiare” il cane con il bocconcino, perché questo capiva bene la differenza tra “ la caramella ” (il prize) and the "meal .
Well the fact that the dog is not an idiot (as well as no animal) I think we all agree, but I wonder how many dogs - among them - are lavish each other "sweets", or hit balls for interaction terms intraspecific.
The answer is simple: none.
So this is a human concept ACQUIRED and, therefore, completely unnatural for a dog, who does not know the concept of "reward " as can happen to a child (which psychologists from around the world daily express).
The dog is NOT a baby ... and not even be a human. It is not a "covered bridge" between the animal and the human is a dog.
The "reinforcement" is therefore one of the many ways we use to project our humanity (to teach things to the dog comes from the human need to exert a epimeletico behavior - looking after someone ), reports of all kinds, but which have nothing to do with the mind of an anti-democratic canidate.
Their nature requires fixed rules and rigid - although this may seem wrong - but it is an ethological point at which each dog must come to terms sooner or later.
The "doing good" does not belong to the dogs, just as it belongs to the concept of democrazia, di spazio/tempo, di processo astrattivo (gelosia, rancore, invidia, etc.).
E' un fatto, non un punto di vista.
Voler forzare questa porta è etologicamente scorretto, anche se umanamente accettabile (ma sempre di MORALE UMANA si parla).
C'è quindi a mio avviso un solo modo etologico per “premiare” un cane: fargli comprendere – unicamente attraverso il SUO ragionamento - il valore positivo di un'azione, la quale diventa un “ PUNTO IN COMUNE ”, non un momento di opportunismo (il premio) o uno strumento per ottenere “servilismo” (il confine è apparentemente sottile, ma è la sostanza that change).
Parto, as you know, from afar, that is the vision of partnership with the dog (and only in partnership VERA is of the dialogue).
Our slogan is: - "You arrive where I'm coming ... and vice versa ", placing it as a fundamental inalienable stake, from small to big things.
In this way, after gaining his trust (on which to build the daily report) step to the next step in small steps, expanding the pace as much as possible. The alliance will become stronger and stronger with time, more sophisticated and precise to the point where we can talk of true and its symbiosis: a single body with six legs, which is nothing but the continuation - the continuation - of the other partner.
This is what I long ago called "cooperation between species" is not my invention.
course, doing so takes much longer and will never achieve the precision required in the competitive arena, but for this fact, there is training - not the relationship.
is why I believe we face a lot of confusion about the terms (the relationship is one thing - another training) and should be done a number of setbacks.
An example? Sure.
To teach my border collie the command of "land" shall begin with the sheep (the breed of dog is unique in the sheepdog).
As soon as I put in front of the flock started to heel so inconclusive and purely instinctive. His inexperience made him motivated to do "a blizzard" with great expenditure of energy, to the point of exhaustion after a few minutes.
to earth and do right about this, leaving the sheep to observe that moved towards me that he would not necessarily crazy, every day has made more balanced, more careful and constructive in the face of all the infinite variables proposed by the flock .
the timely delivery of the dog, together with the infinite patience the desire to make him understand - more than just teaching - it has led to a great self-confidence and a formidable capacity of understanding with me, as well as having given a spirit of initiative in line with the factor "binomial" and "partnership ".
The command itself in this case becomes a resource (energy saving) and do not need any "reinforcement" since it is the result of an understanding.
Schnaps - the border in question - it has now (at age four and a half), through this system, a stock of about 130 different commands, distributed (by film) on various parts of the body with an "outrun" the 700/800 meters.
This method allows both to waive the resulting "process of extinction of reinforcement" (which few dog lovers do) - since the reinforcement is only intended as an anchor of the daily report made up of many small things - the report - aimed at making NOT include the value of a treat (because ultimately that's what happens), but to open the mind of the dog.
then will be up to me never to abuse the link established (how many times we give a command at the wrong time?). This is NOT
zooantropologia, but applied ethology, cognitive psychology; bond that can only go one way: that the cartel deep and long-term development the animal - whatever it is.
am happy to have networking - and therefore available to anyone who wants to make honey.
Culture is for everyone. And as someone said: - "It 's more than just training new teachers who do not keep things for themselves" ... the rest is "marketing dog" - even if legal - I do not belongs.
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