How to Use the Click to Motivate Your Dog

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The dog at first views the click as neutral, like the dog doesn't care one way or another about the click. The idea is that the good thing about the click is you can time it very precisely. However, the trainers at least that I follow say you should always give the food afterwards because the click can also lose its value. But you could use the click as sort of intermediate rewards before the final reward, right? Well, temporarily, yes.

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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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