Items About Critical Concepts
- Adding and Changing Cues
- In this clip, you'll learn how to teach an old dog new tricks by introducing new cues to a knowledgeable dog. Karen Pryor explains how clickerwise dogs are able to continue to learn.
- Adding the Cue and Stimulus Control
- To control the animal you must first control the behavior which can be done by adding cues or signals to the behavior. This clip teaches you how to use the cues for stimulus control which helps the communication between the trainer and the animal.
- An Introduction to Target Training with Dogs (and a Fish!)
Watch as Karen Pryor demonstrates how clicker training can be used with all types of animals, including a fish! Excerpted from Clicker Magic, available in full-length or ind[...] - Behavior Chains
- Understanding behavior chains and how to build them will allow you to teach your animal complex and lengthy behaviors. Linking a series of behaviors together creating a chain will help you and your animal to achieve behaviors that you never would have th[...]
- Click for Joy
- Questions and answers culled from years of experience and posts to ClickerSolutions. This Double DWAA Award winner is an invaluable resource for experienced trainers and newcomers alike.
- Click for Life: Clicker Training for the Shelter Environment
- An introduction to clicker training just for shelter staff and volunteers!
- Click to Calm
When Emma Parsons, canine trainer and behavior consultant, discovered that Ben, her own prized golden retriever, was aggressive toward other dogs and that traditional remedies took his reactivity to nightmarish levels, she turned to clicker training.
- Click to Win: Clicker Training for the Show Ring
- Collected articles by Karen Pryor from the AKC Gazette, including classic material on show ring training techniques and clicker training.
- Clicker Intermediate Training Level 3: Clicker Clips Companion Video
This video makes an excellent instructional companion guide to the book. Of particular value are the sessions that show sequences involved with shaping a behavior. Proper shaping [...] - Clicker Trainers Course: Intermediate
- In this next great workbook in the series, you
- Clicker Trainers Course: Novice
- If you have mastered the basic of clicker training, (theory, timing, basic behaviors) and you want to take your skills to the next level, this workbook from Kay Laurence will definitely help you get there.
- Clicker Training for Obedience
- Here's the step-by-step "Clicker Way" to get great performance from any working dog, without using harsh methods. This is "The" Clicker book for all kinds of competition! In this breakthrough book, Morgan Spector shows you how and why to use "Clicker Trai[...]
- Clicker Training in the Saddle
- If you understand horses, you'll be able to immediately see the differences in a 'clicker horse's gait and carriage. Even horses that have had a hard time in the past grasping basic performance behaviors can excel when clicker trained. There is also a gre[...]
- Conventional Training vs. Shaping for Stimulus Control
- In this demonstration, Karen Pryor uses humans to illustrate why and how you need to establish the behavior before the cue. This is a fun and informational session that will teach you the difference between traditional/conventional training versus shaping[...]
- Count on Me: Training for Reliability
- Police officer and K9 trainer and consultant Steve White teaches clicker training to law enforcement personnel all over the US and Canada, in areas where reliability is a must: such as tracking and catching criminals and searching for illegal substances. [...]
- Cues for One Behavior Can Become Reinforcers for a Previous Behavior
- Karen Pryor uses human participants in this video to demonstrate how a cue can become a reinforcer for a behavior that was previously learned. This fun clip gives the participants and the viewers a good idea of how the animal feels when exposed to many of[...]
- Generalizing Behaviors
- Generalization is one of the basic principles of operant conditioning and is necessary in order to get consistent performance. Performing at home in a peaceful environment can be quite different than when performing for large crowds at an event. Watchin[...]
- Getting the Behavior
- During this clip learn how to teach a single behavior six different ways! If there are roadblock when teaching a specific behavior try to teach the same behavior through a different process.
- How to Develop a Cue (a conditioned stimulus)
- In this video lesson, Karen Pryor works with human participants to demonstrate the process of how to develop a cue. Watch as participants try to learn the cue while being rewarded with clicks and chocolates.
- Next Step in Clicker Training your Horse: Range, Duration & Complexity
- Putting the Clicker to Work For You-Horses. In this lesson, you will learn how to increase the range, duration and complexity of behavior. By asking for a little bit more from the horse with each repetition, it becomes easy to build behaviors while your[...]
- Observing Natural Behaviors
Although it is important for the dog to move a little in order to begin shaping behaviors. It is equally important to detect these small movements and behavioral nuances. In this video, you will learn how to watch your dog and what to look for when obs[...] - Offering Behaviors
When training, it is important to keep in mind that one of your jobs is to break down the behaviors you are teaching into smaller steps. You may not realize that the dog has a job too: to offer behaviors. This means that the dog is willing to move arou[...] - On Behavior: Essays and Research
- Download Karen Pryor's articles and research papers on animal behavior and training, from popular magazines and the peer-reviewed scientific literature.
- Polishing Behaviors for Performance
- In this video you'll learn how to polish the behaviors that your dog has already learned. Latency, speed, distractions, and duration are just a sampling of the topics covered.
- Practical Use of a Target Stick
- Karen Pryor narrates this video clip as a search and rescue dog is trained using the target stick, which makes the training much easier. Watch as the dog goes through difficult obstacles to simulate the disaster terrain it will face in the real world as a[...]
- Putting It All Together
- This video will teach you how to bring all the important concepts together from start to finish. In this example, retrieving is taught from the very beginning, through the entire training process until it is a well polished learned behavior.
- Shaping Behavior: Adding the Cue
When clicker training, the cue is added after the behavior has been learned. Once the behavior is being performed reliably you can assign it a cue or signal. Watch as these llamas are given cues and learn about what makes a good cue. - Shaping Behavior: Applying Variable Reinforcement
A schedule of reinforcement is simply the rate at which you reinforce or reward each behavior. When teaching your llama a new behavior, you will want to reward the llama every single time it performs the new behavior. When the behavior becomes consiste[...] - Shaping Behavior: Step by Step
Shaping behavior is a creative element of operant conditioning. First, choose a behavior you would like to teach your llama. Then break it down into small steps that will be easy for your llama to successfully perform. Finally, click and reward your ll[...] - The Shape of Bow Wow: Shaping Behaviors and Adding Cues
Learn to shape behavior and put it on cue— the most fundamental skills in clicker training— from the creators of the popular and award-winning Bow Wow Videos. - Timing, Pacing, and Extinction Bursts
- Watch as special attention is given to each of these critical parts of clicker training. This video explains these concepts in a clear and easy to follow directions and demonstrations that are good for any animal and every trainer.
- Tips for the Trainer
- These handy tips are useful for any type of trainer regardless of what animal you are training. Raising your expectations, defining specific goals, finding a place to start, and practicing towards progress are all reviewed in order to improve your clicke[...]
- Training at a Distance
- It may be difficult to teach, but a dog who can receive cues from a distance is one that always amazes. This cue can also be used as a functional cue for not only your safety but also your dog
- Varying Solutions for Varying Situations
- Facing Uncertain Situations: In this lesson you'll learn how clicker training can be used in situations that often cause fear and uncertainty among horses and their handlers. Here clicker training helps a difficult horse, an abused horse, a three-week-old[...]
- What is Shaping?
Shaping is a powerful tool that allows you to build a behavior step by step with all types of animals. In this video, shaping is taught by reinforcing small approximations of a behavior until you achieve your final goal. This entertaining video breaks [...] - World-Class Stimulus Control: New Zealand
- This exciting clip provides an example of stimulus control with working sheepdogs in New Zealand. Karen Pryor narrates during a real training session moving over 10,000 sheep in a breathtaking location with these remarkable, hard-working dogs.
- Overcoming Roadblocks: A Panel Discussion
- Lots of great insights and good humor as these top trainers and teachers bounce ideas off each other and field some serious questions about shaping, luring, skill acquisition, and targeting from a rapt audience of hundreds of clicker trainers. With: Aaron[...]
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