{"id":163,"date":"2011-10-17T09:54:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T15:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/?p=163"},"modified":"2011-10-17T10:39:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T16:39:22","slug":"training-and-behavior-terms-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/training-and-behavior-terms-defined\/","title":{"rendered":"Training and Behavior Terms Defined"},"content":{"rendered":"

As with all aspects of life, clear communication between\u00a0 caregivers, trainers, and behaviorists is vitally important if we are all to help each other solve behavior problems with our birds. One tenet of clear\u00a0 communication is the vocabulary used for such communications. To foster clear\u00a0 communication I will be posting a series of short articles here that define and examine some of the most used and abused terms of behavior science. This will\u00a0 not be a complete list, merely an attempt to improve all of our communication\u00a0skills and through that improved communication develop our relationships with our\u00a0birds through better training.<\/p>\n

All of the definitions used in these articles will be taken\u00a0from \u201cLearning and Behavior\u201d by Paul Chance<\/a>. Anyone who is interested in\u00a0getting good solid information about behavior science should seriously consider\u00a0purchasing a copy of this book.<\/p>\n

I will begin the series with a term that many people feel\u00a0they completely\u00a0understand. However, one only needs to monitor\u00a0a few of the many Internet lists and forums to realize it is often misused.<\/p>\n

Reinforcement<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The procedure of\u00a0 providing consequences for a behavior that increase or maintain the strength of that behavior.Learning and Behavior, Paul Chance.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This single sentence embodies several important concepts\u00a0that many people appear to either gloss over or misunderstand. First and\u00a0perhaps most misunderstood is that reinforcement is a procedure<\/em><\/strong> and not a\u00a0tangible thing or object. One often hears people say \u201cI offered reinforcement \u2026\u201d\u00a0Reinforcement cannot be offered like a peanut. It is the process of giving the\u00a0bird a peanut immediately after a behavior and<\/em><\/strong> seeing a future increase or\u00a0maintenance of that behavior. This is the second important point in this sentence;\u00a0the process followed by the trainer\/caregiver is only defined as reinforcement\u00a0if, after the consequence is provided, the behavior it follows actually is\u00a0maintained or increased. No matter what our intention reinforcement has only\u00a0been used when one is able to observe its effect on future behavior.<\/p>\n

Closely related to reinforcement is \u201cReinforcer.\u201d This is\u00a0not a term directly defined by Chance in his book, however I will write about\u00a0Reinforcers and Punishers in a future article that addresses the term \u201cStimulus.\u201d<\/p>\n

I hope you enjoy these short articles, if you have a term\u00a0that you find confusing or would simply like better defined and explained
\nplease feel free to email me.<\/p>\n

Keep soaring,<\/p>\n

Sid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As with all aspects of life, clear communication between\u00a0 caregivers, trainers, and behaviorists is vitally important if we are all to help each other solve behavior problems with our birds. One tenet of clear\u00a0 communication is the vocabulary used for such communications. To foster clear\u00a0 communication I will be posting a series of short articles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,41,42,13,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aba","category-behavior-science","category-definitions","category-reinforcement","category-sid-price","category-training"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}