{"id":653,"date":"2011-11-27T14:07:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T03:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/?p=653"},"modified":"2021-08-02T14:43:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T04:13:06","slug":"mcgreevy-on-the-keys-to-dog-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/dog-behaviour\/dog-training-dog-behaviour\/mcgreevy-on-the-keys-to-dog-training\/","title":{"rendered":"McGreevy on \u2018The Keys\u2019 to Dog Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small><small><small>This post is part of the McGreevy seminar series. <a href=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/dog-behaviour\/paul-mcgreevy-seminars\/\">Click here for the index<\/a>.<\/small><\/small><\/small><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Paul McGreevy wrote a book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holisticpage.com.au\/CarrotsAndSticks_PaulMcgreevy%7C9780521686914#http:\/\/www.holisticpage.com.au\/CarrotsAndSticks_PaulMcgreevy%257C9780521686914\">Carrots and Sticks<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/purl.library.usyd.edu.au\/sup\/9781921364150\">2nd edition to be released soon<\/a>), where he interviewed a number of animal trainers internationally.\u00a0 Consequently, he identified two key components to animal training: Timing and consistency.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_654\" style=\"width: 349px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ruthlessphotos.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"size-full wp-image-654\" title=\"Doberman playing tug\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ruthlessphotos-5445_1.jpg\" width=\"339\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ruthlessphotos-5445_1.jpg 339w, http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ruthlessphotos-5445_1-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos \u00a9 Ruthless Photos<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Good timing is imperative to effective training.\u00a0 This means appropriately rewarding and punishing animals, at the right moment. (Or using a marker to do so.)<\/p>\n<p>Consistency was also important to animal training.\u00a0 He argued that inconsistency impedes training and learning, and increases confusion for the animal.\u00a0 McGreevy explained that, if different people were training an animal, then the animal would have to generalise the training methods and so confusion could occur.\u00a0 He also explained the value in isolation, in order to teach the animal to value human attention, and allow the trainer to be entirely consistent when they do interact with the animal.<\/p>\n<p>Timing and consistency are considered important across all species.<\/p>\n<p>Though it was only mentioned in passing, I think both timing and consistency as a whole could be described by <a href=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/dog-behaviour\/dog-training-dog-behaviour\/schedules-of-reinforcement\/\">schedules of reinforcement<\/a>.\u00a0 Schedules of reinforcement are almost \u2018rules\u2019 that explain how varying delivery of reinforcement can product different results in the animal\u2019s response.\u00a0 Reinforcement can be based either on \u2018all or nothing\u2019 (continuous reinforcement, or no reinforcement seeking extinction), or after a fixed or variable amount of time, or after a fixed or variable amount of responses\/behaviours.<\/p>\n<p>More McGreevy seminar based posts to come!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><small><small><small>This post is part of the McGreevy seminar series. <a href=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/dog-behaviour\/paul-mcgreevy-seminars\/\">Click here for the index<\/a>.<\/small><\/small><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How timing and consistency are important in dog training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[266,12,164,11,232,240,219,268,267],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-training-dog-behaviour","tag-consistency","tag-dog","tag-dog-training","tag-dogs","tag-mcgreevy","tag-operant-conditioning","tag-paul-mcgreevy","tag-schedules-of-reinforcement","tag-timing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4890,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/4890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}