Download : 280 This book stands to benefit, not only dog owners and trainers … not only teachers and parents … but anyone who ever hopes to get other people (or themselves) to behave in a certain way—employees, co-workers, bosses, customers, contractors … restaurant servers and bartenders … the guys who pick up your trash — in short, it can benefit you.
She’s used operant conditioning to train everything from fish to orcas, cats to elephants, children to co-workers. It offers up interesting anecdotes not just about dog training, or children in classrooms, but about dolphins and elephants and cats and department managers. However, you need to keep in mind that what the author advocates is positive reinforcement. If it bothers you then put it into the dryer yourself" Rating: 8/10. I was well and truly hooked, once I realized that the concepts of clicker training and positive reinforcement were being taught to teachers and school counselors! Now this revised edition presents more of her insights into animal—and human—behavior.A groundbreaking behavioral scientist and dynamic animal trainer, Karen Pryor is a powerful proponent of the principles and …
A good book if you are training animals. SOLUTIONS: I have recommended it to others, as well. extra cinema tickets). "Thank you" So I picked this up after going to Clicker Expo, Karen Pryor's clicking training seminar thinking I really should read this. Format : PDF, ePub, Docs One of the books she was reading (it turned out it was Kyrana’s copy o On my recent, wonderful trip to Sacramento, I was fortunate in learning many new things and meeting many fabulous new people. : The New Art of Teaching and Training theresistanceunited.com Copyright.
File Size : 34.89 MB This kind of teaching doesn't have to be at odds with humanism--in fact, I think that humanism and behaviorism have a lot to teach each other, and Pryor talks about how observable behavior is one "ring" in a series of interlocking rings: behavior is one; ethology or internal emotional states is the second, and the third level (which we do not yet fully understand) has to do with behavior like play, empathy, imaginativeness, and creativity. ), research has shown its ineffectiveness, because it often shames people and makes them less productive.
: The New Art of Teaching and Training | Karen Pryor | download | B–OK. I learned my lesson from that awful Cesar Milan book and only Picked and chose the parts that seemed applicable to me and what I needed.
Received a copy of this as a gift from a biologist friend to help me deal with my rabbit problems, but it's a great read.
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The book seems to mainly talk about training animals, but if you're willing to experiment, I believe it is a good guide on how you can use some of the principles listed to shape your relationship with others.
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TECHNIQUES: Although the book is written a bit too academically for me I have taken some valuable notes for myself: There is no down side! I remember my son asking why someone else's dog had to be let out. I had to read this book as homework for an intensive DBT training and am so glad that I did! It bounces from stories of clicker-training a fish to experiments with improving her own golf and tennis skills. Karen Pryor lays out ten rules for shaping (clicker training/operantly conditioning) behavior and eight rules for changing behavior you don't want. Download : 129 The book is ready to use instruction for pet lovers who want to train their animals.
One of the most important takeaways: use positive reinforcement, not punishment. All of the reader reviews currently on the page deal with the first edition.
On my recent, wonderful trip to Sacramento, I was fortunate in learning many new things and meeting many fabulous new people. Download : 462 Originally written in 1984, with an update added in 1999, it is as applicable today as it was then. The animal training game is now a favorite in my family.
If your job involves any kind of teaching, training, managing, or communication, I think you would find this book useful and thought-provoking. Practical lessons to take: you're probably not reinforcing what you think you're reinforcing; when you perform training, the subject is also training you; it's very hard, even with a fellow adult, to really communicate what it is that you want; and before you can do that, you have to know what you want, with a fair amount of precision. I disagree with some of her starting points and conclusions, such as the evolutionary origin of behaviors, and the avoidance of all punishment with children, but overall it was an interesting and insightful book.
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I have. If, like most of us, you live with fellow sentient beings, you'll not only enjoy the book, but learn skills that will make everyone's life more pleasant.
She was one of the early proponents of clicker training. She also teaches through stories, and I love that. Nice positive reinforcement.
One day I left the book on the coffee table and returned from a phone call only to find Bonnie with paws planted firmly on the book proudly sharing that she had ripped it in half. Overall, recommended if you are interested in psychology or why humans act the way they do.
: The New Art of Teaching and Training ebook epub Don't Shoot the Dog! Which I enjoy, because I think it makes the reader stronger in knowledge by the end of the book. She’s used operant conditioning to train everything from fish to orcas, cats to elephants, children to co-workers.
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I owe a lot of what I do to Karen Pryor and people who worked to make positive reinforcement training what it is today. Download : 688
I also LOVED the description of teaching as a two-way communication between teacher and learner, a dynamic relationship in which both subjects are actively learning from each other and shaping their ability to listen and communicate with each other.
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