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Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training

#113: Cue Hierarchies with Vidhya Karthikeyan, Part 2

Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training

Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

Dogobedience, Dogtraining, Hobbies, Kids & Family, Leisure, Showdogtraining, Puppytraining, Dogbehavior, Dogagility, Pets & Animals

4.7677 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss how context cues affect training, how cue hierarchies function, how to set up a training session to teach cue discrimination, how errorless learning plays a role, what default behaviors are and how to choose them.

For full show notes, visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/113
Support the show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/DFTT

Transcript

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0:00.0

this really stuck with me. How can I teach a non-response? How can I test an understanding of something

0:09.1

if I only ever pay for doing it and I never teach the skill of not doing it? So the gambler that my

0:18.6

animal is, he's always going to pick doing something rather than go, oh, no, no, no, I must not.

0:41.8

Hey there, fellow training nerds. I'm Hannah Branigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book, Awesome

0:46.6

Obedience, and the companion, Awesome Obedience Field Guide, which are both available at clickertraining.com. And I'm going to link to those

0:55.9

in the show notes, and this time I'm going to use the correct link to save us all a lot of trouble.

1:00.9

So last week, we were talking with Vidya Karthikean of the unlikely tricksters and geeking out

1:06.6

about cues and stimulus control and queue hierarchies. And we'll pick back up with that madness this week.

1:13.7

But it's definitely going to make more sense if you heard the last episode first.

1:18.8

So if you didn't catch that one, stop right now.

1:21.6

Go back, listen to the other one because she set the whole thing up talking about her project

1:25.0

with the toilet paper and the pasta.

1:27.4

And if you didn't hear that, then nothing that we say in this episode is going to make any

1:32.0

sense at all. So go listen to that one. I mean, I'm not entirely sure it's going to make sense either

1:35.5

way, but still, it'll give you a fighting chance. So before we get to that, I got to send a shout

1:40.6

out to these awesome folks for supporting the podcast on Patreon. So thank you to

1:45.2

Stacey D. Anupria S. Brenda P. Anna A. Christine F. Katia P. Eva M. Will M. Haley S. and

1:57.9

Ann W. I love you guys. You are so awesome. If you want to join these folks and support the

2:03.9

podcast, you can visit www. patreon.com slash DFTT. Also conveniently linked for you in the show notes.

2:12.4

Okay. So we've been talking to Vidya, brilliant mind and excellent trainer about Q's and Q hierarchies.

2:19.1

But what do we mean by a Q hierarchy? So a Q hierarchy is basically how we make a decision of what

2:27.5

behavior, how to act when we're faced with two or more pieces of information. Which bits of all

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