{"id":2161,"date":"2013-01-24T15:17:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T04:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2021-08-02T17:39:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:09:55","slug":"dogs-learning-through-modelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/dog-behaviour\/dogs-learning-through-modelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogs Learning Through Modelling"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those who have read my about me page<\/a>, you won’t be surprised to learn that I have always been into dogs and their training. As a student at school, I always tried to make my assignments about dogs where possible.<\/p>\n

I remember doing Stage 2 Psychology in school, and how immensely easy learning theory was. I was doing this already when I was training dogs! \u00a0We had an oral presentation on three aspects of learning (classical conditioning<\/a>, operant conditioning<\/a>, and modelling), and I chose to base mine on dogs.<\/p>\n

While classical conditinoinng and operant conditioning was easy to talk about, I had difficulty finding examples of modelling in dogs. To this day, I still struggle to find examples.<\/p>\n

That’s probably why I was so excited to find this video (shared by PuppyTales<\/a> – thanks!). It shows a young puppy who is hesitant to go down a small flight of steps. An adult dog walks past a number of times and the puppy eventually follows suit and descends the steps himself:<\/p>\n