The Relationship Between Clicker Training and Operating Condition

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People confuse negative reinforcement and punishment, I think understandably because like both are almost certainly happening if there's an immersive event. So a positive reward be like, give it out of the tree. A negative reward would be like, take away something the dog doesn't like to do. If you're rewarding your dog a lot, your dog actually wants to be involved in training,. Whereas on the punishment side, people don't like being punished. The animal person is like going to want to avoid those kind of interactions with you.

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What is the Internal Family Systems model? What kinds of information do our emotions give us? How many agents live in our heads? And, if there's more than one, how well do those agents cooperate? What is operant conditioning? What is attachment theory? How does parenting differ from animal training? Is decision theory able to unify many different psychological theories?

Divia Eden has always been interested in understanding how minds work, and she currently spends most of her time unschooling her three kids. You can find out more about her at becomingeden.com or follow her on Twitter at @diviacaroline.

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