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UConn ECE Summer Reading: Understanding Animal Behavior with Operant Conditioning, Study notes of Photoshop

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A summer reading assignment for the University of Connecticut Electrical and Computer Engineering Behavior and Training course. It covers various topics related to operant conditioning, including reinforcers, shaping, and training methods. Students are required to read the book 'Don’t Shoot the Dog' by Karen Pryor and answer questions related to each chapter.

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Name: Date:
Don’t Shoot the Dog
UConn ECE Behavior and Training, Summer Reading Assignment, Ms. Jeffries
Due: Friday, September 14th
You can either check out a book from me, or use Google for the PDF.
MUST BE HAND-WRITTEN!
Chapter 1
1. What is a reinforcer?
2. What is a positive reinforcer?
3. What is a negative reinforcer?
4. What does the statement “a reinforcer is relative, not absolute” mean?
5. Why is it useful to have a variety of reinforcers?
6. What is the difference between negative reinforcement and punishment?
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Name: UConn ECE Behavior and Training, Summer Reading Assignment, Ms. Jeffries Don’t Shoot the Dog Date:

You can either check out a book from me, or use Google for the PDF. MUST BE HAND-WRITTEN! Due: Friday, September 14th

Chapter 1 1. What is a reinforcer?

  1. What is a positive reinforcer?
  2. What is a negative reinforcer?
  3. What does the statement “a reinforcer is relative, not absolute” mean?
  4. Why is it useful to have a variety of reinforcers?
  5. What is the difference between negative reinforcement and punishment?

Name:7. Discuss the llama clicker training passage and why it worked: Date:

  1. Why is timing of reinforcement so important?
  2. How “big” should your reinforcer be?
  3. What is the difference between “unexpected jackpot” and “undeserved jackpot”?
  4. What is a conditioned reinforcer?
  5. Discuss the “keep going” signal:
  6. What is a conditioned aversive?

Name:6. What should you do if the shaping method you are using does not seem to be working?Date:

  1. What should you do if a learned behavior deteriorates?
  2. How long should a shaping session run?
  3. In the Training Game passage, the author explained why the game is difficult for “brilliant,intellectual people,” why is this so?
  4. What is targeting?
  5. What is mimicry?
  6. What is modeling? Chapter 3 1. What is a stimulus?

Name:2. Conventional trainers start with a cue before they begin training, how does this differ fromoperant conditioning? Date:

  1. There are 4 rules to complete, perfect stimulus control, name 2 of the rules:
  2. What can a signal or discriminative stimulus be?
  3. What is signal fading? Provide an example:
  4. What is targeting?
  5. Give an example of a conditioned aversive stimuli:
  6. What are limited holds?

Name:4. Method 4 to get rid of unwanted behavior is “Extinction,” describe what this means:Date:

  1. Method 5 to get rid of unwanted behavior is “Train an Incompatible Behavior,” describe anexample of this:
  2. Method 6 to get rid of unwanted behavior is “Put the Behavior on Cue,” explain how this works:
  3. Method 7 to get rid of unwanted behavior is “Shape the Absence of the Behavior,” give anexample of how this works:
  4. Method 8 to get rid of unwanted behavior is “Change the Motivation,” describe an instancewhere this helps:
  5. Discuss deprivation in training animals:

Name:10. Biting your nails is an example of what? Why does this occur? Date:

  1. How can you fix chronic lateness? Chapter 5 1. Briefly describe the change in training of individual sports:
  2. Why did the elephant described seem to “forget” how to pick up carrots from the trainer?
  3. Why does rewarding someone/something in hope of personal gain not work well?
  4. Provide one example from the text of non-animal, positive reinforcement with a marker, trainingthat was successful:
  5. What are the benefits of positive reinforcement with a marker such as a clicker?