Rewards!! Delivery Patterns and Sources of Rewards

Kay Laurence - Learning About Dogs - A podcast by Kay Laurence, Frances McCormack & Sue McGuire

Send us a textIn the early days of using positive reinforcement and clicker training, the delivery of that reinforcer, (reward), was not part of the consideration. The format of the research experiments favoured a mechanical magazine to deliberately remove any variables that human delivery would include.When people become the mechanism of delivery we have to consider the variable elements that effect of the reinforcer, or reward. Sadly “mechanical delivery” and the mechanical skills are still...