#172: How to Tell That Your Classical Conditioning Plan is Working

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Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

When we pair two stimuli together as part of a classical conditioning training plan, it can sometimes be hard to determine when the association has been made between the old stimulus and the new stimulus… the “food” and the “bell”, to draw from a popular example. In this episode, I answer a question submitted by a patron with some ideas on what to look for to determine if that association is strong enough and it’s time to proceed to the next step.

In this episode, we discuss quick review of conditioned emotional response, what happens when you pair a reinforcer with a stimulus in the environment, using this strategy to build a specific, positive CER in a training session, a recap of Lindsay Wood Brown’s work on resource guarding, and applying this strategy to stimulus-stimulus pairing with scent.

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This podcast is supported by MET Conference 2023: www.metconference.com/

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0:00.0	The dog has a good opportunity to say, oh, that's just a trash can, no big deal.
0:04.5	Or, holy crap, how many rabbits were out here last night?
0:07.3	Well, never mind, I'd rather train with my person anyways.
0:09.6	Like, I mean, that's the ideal, right?
0:11.5	We want to minimize the effect of anything that's going on in the environment
0:14.4	that might be functioning as either an opportunity for reinforcement that I can't control
0:19.7	or an aversive or negative
0:21.2	reinforcer that I don't really want part of that picture.
0:44.5	Hey there, fellow training nerds, you're listening to Drinking from the Toilet.
0:50.6	If you like to geek out about combining the science of behavior with positive reinforcement philosophy in real life, you've come to the right place.
0:54.5	And I'm your host, Hannah Branigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book Awesome Obedience and its companion, Awesome Obedience, the field guide, which are both
0:58.7	available from clicker training.com. So don't forget, the next round of zero to CD will open again
1:05.3	on Monday, April 24th, with the orientation for the new cohort is going to be on that following Monday, May 1st.
1:12.4	This is a program that always fills quickly.
1:14.6	So you're going to want to make sure to get on the email list to be notified if this is something that you're interested in joining this round.
1:21.3	You can find out more about the program by going to zero to cd.com.
1:25.2	So this week, we are going to be talking about how to tell if your attempts to
1:30.4	classically condition something, some stimulus, or develop a CER, short for conditioned emotional
1:37.7	response, how to tell if that's actually working in real time and in a way that's going to be
1:43.5	useful to your training on a practical
1:45.8	level. Before we get into that, I don't know if you know this, but this episode is supported by
1:52.2	the MET conference and patrons like Michelle H, who showed off her spectacularly exquisite taste
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