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Behavior Science

• SCIENCE: What Happened to the Science in Science-based Training?
• SCIENCE: The Science of Behavior Change
• SCIENCE: The Secret Life of the If/Then Contingency
• SCIENCE: How I Learned to Love the Learning Processes (aka, “The 4 Quadrants”)
• SCIENCE: Beyond ABC: Improving Interventions and Animal Welfare with Nonlinear Contingency Analysis
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Can You See the 4 Quadrants?
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Can You See the 4 Quadrants? Part 2
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Ethology in Animal Training
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Getting Past Hypothetical Constructs, Explanatory Fictions, and Circular Reasoning for Behavior
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Operationilizing Behavior
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – What Does It Mean to Practice “Evidence-Based” Animal Training?
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Parsimony
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Time-Out from Positive Reinforcement
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Motivating Operations
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Imitation, Modeling, Observational Learning
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Contrived vs Naturally Existing Reinforcement
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Schedules of Reinforcement
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Conjugate Reinforcement
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Errorless Learning
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Least Restrictive, Intrusive, Aversive
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Coercion
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – The Counter Conditioning Conundrum
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – A Closer Look at Systematic Desensitization
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Understanding Aversive Stimuli
• You Be the Behavior Consultant – Exploring the Metaphor of “Trust Accounts” in Animal Training
• SCIENCE: Degrees of Freedom – GOATS 2022
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Matching Law and Response Allocation (AKA Choice)
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Contrafreeloading
• SCIENCE: Advances in Animal Training that are Improving Welfare

Practical Application

• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: How to Train a New Behavior
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: Understanding the Bridging Stimulus
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: Using a Whistle in Animal Training
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Observational Skills
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Luring in Animal Training
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Capturing Tips and Tricks
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Targeting Practical Application Deep Dive
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Station Training Practical Application Deep Dive
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Generalization Deep Dive
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Cleaning Up Your Cues
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Setting Animals Up for Success
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: A Solid Foundation Rocks!
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: How to Write a Shaping Plan
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Shaping Deep Dive
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: An Alternative, Efficient, and Powerful System for Training Complex Behaviors
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Behavior Chains
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Assent vs Consent
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Animal Trainer Self-Awareness
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Stimulus Preference Assessment
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Getting in Touch with Touch
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Demand Functions: What Makes Behavior Worth Doing?
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: Creating Motivation
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: Animal Training without Weight Management
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Session Dynamics
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – End of Session Signals
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: Time Management for Animal Training
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: The Weekly Training Tracking Chart
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: When the Right Thing is Negative. Optimizing Welfare with Negative Reinforcement
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Does Food Reinforcer Size Matter?
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: Choosing the Right Sized Food Reinforcer
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Automatic Reinforcement
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Punishment Awareness
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Considerations when Training Multiple Animals
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Exploring “Choosing to Participate” Arrangements. Opting Out without Missing Out
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Building Optimal Animal Training Procedures
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Helping Animals Remember (or Forget)

Recommended Reading

• RECOMMENDED READING: EAZA Animal Training Guidelines
• RECOMMENDED READING: Animal Training Revisited by Farhoody, P.