Take a walk in my shoes. Join me on a behavior consultation with an exotic species where YOU get to be the behavior consultant. You will discover things that might sound familiar and also things that might be unique and important to the species in front of you. Either way you are guaranteed to learn something!

Resources:

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Foster, D.F., Miller, H.L. & Fleming, D.E. Autoshaping, hand-shaping, and errorless learning. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 11, 219–222 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336813

Peterson, G. B. (2004). A DAY OF GREAT ILLUMINATION: B. F. SKINNER’S DISCOVERY OF SHAPING. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 82(3), 317–328. https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.2004.82-317

Pierce, W. D., & Cheney, C. D. (2017). Behavior analysis and learning: A biobehavioral approach (6th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. p240-241

Stefano Ghirlanda (2020, August 9) 16. Autoshaping F [Video] YouTube. https://youtu.be/dQaO8GEltuc

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