#36: The CER with Lindsay Wood Brown

Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training

Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

How To, Education, Pets & Animals, Kids & Family

4.7 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation, Lindsay Wood Brown and I attempt to unpack the concept of the Conditioned Emotional Response (CER) as applies to dog training. In addition to running through (and utterly confusing ourselves with) the terminology of the conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus, etc, we also talk about practical application. For the full show notes, visit: https://wonderpupstraining.com/podcast/36/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey there. You are listening to drinking from the toilet. And I'm your host, Hannah Branigan.
0:18.6	When I first started this podcast, the vision that I had for it
0:22.4	was as if we, you and I, were hanging out on the porch, drinking a glass of wine and geeking out
0:29.2	on behavior and dog training stuff. The kinds of conversations that often happen in the evening
0:34.4	after a conference or a seminar, and for most of us never happen nearly often enough.
0:41.3	And with this episode, that's exactly what we're doing.
0:45.3	This past week, I got a chance to hang out with my friend and fellow Clicker Expo faculty member,
0:50.3	Lindsay Wood Brown, after the APDT conference.
0:53.3	And while we were literally hanging out
0:56.0	on her back porch with a glass of wine, geeking out on behavior stuff, I thought, hey,
1:01.1	why don't I grab my computer and let's record this so we can turn into a podcast, because this is
1:05.6	exactly the sort of conversation that I want to share with you guys. And we were able to squeeze in
1:10.7	a solid 20-minute discussion on a popular three-letter acronym. And we were able to squeeze in a solid 20 minute discussion on a popular three-letter acronym,
1:15.6	trending in the dog training world lately, the C-E-R, before her kids came home and recording
1:20.6	anything audio became impractical.
1:23.6	Lindsay is a board-certified, applied animal behaviorist, and she has worked in the animal shelter world as the director of behavior and training at Boulder Humane Society for a lot of years, I don't know how many, and then as director of operations at the Lynchburg Humane Society.
1:41.0	And in both places, she worked on developing positive reinforcement-based behavior modification
1:45.6	programs for the dogs in their care, saving the lives of more and more animals and dramatically
1:52.0	increasing the rates of successful adoptions. She now mentors other behavior consultants and lectures
1:58.6	and consults for shelters all over the country. Now, a CER, if you've never heard the term before, stands for conditioned emotional response.
2:08.6	The CER is what we call that little collection of volunteer and involuntary behaviors,
2:13.6	aka emotion, that gets attached to some initially neutral, meaningless cue or stimuli,
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