How to Use Clicker Training to Eliminate Behaviors

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Can you use kind of clicker training and reward to get a behavior to stop? Yeah, absolutely. It's just different. But many people don't like... Like I have a dog who sometimes likes to jump up to greet people. People don't typically like this. And so the sort of most classic clicker training answer is, will you train an alternate behavior or to go to lie down on a mat and wait to be greeted?"

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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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