Positive Reinforcement, Negative Reinforcement, Positive Punishment and Negative Reinforcement: You may have heard these terms thrown around, but they're often misused or little understood. Together, they describe four different ways all animals learn by consequences-- aka, Operant Conditioning. In a rush to put up a podcast episode while her young baby naps, Annie challenges herself to describe each "quadrant" of Operant Conditioning in two and a half minutes.  

Notes:  

Phoebe controls the TV with her eyes  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMQfFIJU_Ho

Operant conditioning explained in Little Golden Books 

https://anniegrossman.com/2012/03/training/punishment-reinforcement-in-little-golden-books-92902/6672/

Operant conditioning explained on The Big Bang Theory Being 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XUvm_smWHY

BF Skinner's Daughter 

http://anniegrossman.com/2018/08/podcast/podcast-episode-21-bf-skinners-daughter-deborah-buzan-dispels-myths/9722/

6 ways in which dogs and humans are exactly alike  

https://anniegrossman.com/2018/04/science/6-ways-dogs-humans-exactly-alike/9419/

A dog trainer's view of evolution 

http://anniegrossman.com/2018/04/science/dog-trainers-view-evolution/9438/

Episode 42: Let's talk about dog breeding with Cherrie Mahon 

https://www.schoolforthedogs.com/podcasts/lets-talk-about-dog-breeding-with-cherrie-mahon-of-river-valley-doodles/

Episode 44: Are you talking to your socks? Marie Kondo, Cesar Millan & training humans with snake oil

https://www.schoolforthedogs.com/podcasts/episode-44/

Partial Transcript:

Annie:

Hey everyone. Annie here. And I'm with my three-month old cohost who is being quiet right now, but she may have something to say shortly. And because I am a full-time mom in addition to running School for the Dogs and in addition to doing this podcast, I am trying to be more efficient and how I do everything. Because although I have seven hands and four brains, it's hard to get it all done. So for that reason, I am challenging myself today to keep this episode short. And the thing I want to talk about today is operant conditioning, which really has four major parts. So I decided to see if I could describe each of those parts in two and a half minutes. Making all of operant conditioning, something that can be contained in 10 minutes. And let's see. Let's see if I can do it.

But first, what is operant conditioning and why do I want to talk about it? Well, there are basically two ways that all animals learn. There's two kinds of conditioning. Conditioning is a term that's synonymous with learning. And those two ways of learning are operant conditioning and classical conditioning.,,

Full Transcript at Schoolforthedogs.com/Podcasts

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