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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
• SCIENCE: 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: You Be the Behavior Consultant – High P Low P Behavior Sequence
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Principles Vs Procedures
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Risk Benefit Analysis
• SCIENCE: Risk Benefit Analysis Resource
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Social Validity
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Ethics of Behavior Choice
• SCIENCE: Good Trouble. Make Mine a Double – Animal Training Advocacy
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – An Exploration of “States” and their Impact on Animal Behavior
• SCIENCE: Animal Training that Transforms and Measures Emotional Welfare
• SCIENCE: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Plagiarism

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 – Keep Going Signals
• 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 – Does Food Reinforcer Size Matter?
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: Choosing the Right Sized Food Reinforcer
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Shaping with Small Approximations
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Session Dynamics
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – End of Session Signals
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: When the Right Thing is Negative. Optimizing Welfare with Negative Reinforcement
• 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)
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Overshadowing, Blocking, and Pain Management
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: Training Animals to Cooperate in Medical Care. It Can Be Easier Than You Think!
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Plain Language vs Technical Jargon in Animal Training
• PRACTICAL APPLICATION: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Planning for the Best-Case Training Scenario, While Being Prepared for the Worst

Program Development

• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: Identifying Behavior Goals and Documentation – Setting Up Your Training Program
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Encouraging People to Train. Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Meeting Training Objectives
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: Giving Effective Feedback to Animal Trainers
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Addressing Resistance to Change
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: Annette Pedersen – Managing a Zoo Behavior Program
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: Time Management for Animal Training
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: The Weekly Training Tracking Chart
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: Fostering an Animal Training Culture
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: Motivate your Staff Members-AMP
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Using the SMART Model to Set and Achieve your Animal Training Goals
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: Money Talks! – The Economic Value of Zoo Animal Training – GOATS 2022
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Real Talk About Certification Programs
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Boundaries of Competence
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Putting a Label on Training. What’s in a Name?
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Group Learning (AKA Cooperative Learning) and Behavior
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Addressing Polarization in the Animal Community
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Dissemination Practices of Animal Training Information
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Propaganda and Its Impact on The Animal Training Community
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Is the Animal Training Industry Susceptible to Generating “Cult-like” Groups?
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Behavioral Cusps and Animal Trainer Transformation
• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Things That We Used To Do

Problem Solving

• PROBLEM SOLVING: BIG for Animals
• PROBLEM SOLVING: Addressing Repetitive Behavior
• PROBLEM SOLVING: Hope for the Hopeless. Transforming the Behavior of Exotic Animals Once Thought Impossible to Train
• PROBLEM SOLVING: Advances in Animal Training that are Improving Welfare
• PROBLEM SOLVING: Strategies to Reduce or Eliminate Stress for Untrained Animals when Providing Health Care
• PROBLEM SOLVING: The Constructional Approach to Addressing Fear and Aggressive Behavior
• PROBLEM SOLVING: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Training for Resilience against Aversives during Injections and Blood Collection
• PROBLEM SOLVING: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Binge Eating Behavior
• PROBLEM SOLVING: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Adjunctive Behaviors
• PROBLEM SOLVING: Slowing Down the Eager Animal
• PROBLEM SOLVING: Managing Multiple Animals
• PROBLEM SOLVING: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Hangry Animals: What to do?
• PROBLEM SOLVING: You Be the Behavior Consultant – The Vet is Ready. The Animal is Not
• PROBLEM SOLVING: If There’s No Way, Take the High Way – GOATS 2022
• PROBLEM SOLVING: Training Animals to Tolerate Pain
• PROBLEM SOLVING: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Cleaning Up Your Cues
• PROBLEM SOLVING: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Solving Behavior Problems by Asking More Questions
• PROBLEM SOLVING: You Be the Behavior Consultant – Navigating the World of Behavioral Advice

Recommended Reading

• RECOMMENDED READING: EAZA Animal Training Guidelines
• RECOMMENDED READING: Animal Training Revisited by Farhoody, P.
• OPTIONAL RECOMMENDED READING: Shaping Plans
• OPTIONAL RECOMMENDED READING: Training Supplies
• OPTIONAL RECOMMENDED READING: DYI Props