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Foreword (Jack Michael, Ph.D.).
List of Charts.
Introduction.
PART ONE: A History of Animal Training.
Chapter 1: The Scientists: How operant conditioning developed in the lab.
Chapter 2: The Trainers: How dog training evolved to embrace operant conditioning.
PART TWO: The Basic Principles of Behavior.
Chapter 3: Reinforcement: What dogs like, what they want to avoid, what they'll work for.
Chapter 4: Extinction: If I ignore it, it will go away.
Chapter 5: Punishment: Stop that!
Chapter 6: Stimulus Control: Just tell me what to do.
PART THREE: Behavioral Diagnostics: Why Does the Dog Do that?
Chapter 7: Respondent Conditioning: Pavlov and his famous salivating dogs.
Chapter 8: Functional Analysis and Behavioral Diagnostics: What's causing the problem?
Chapter 9: Medical and Environmental Causes of Behavior: Tell me where it hurts.
Chapter 10: Other Training Issues You Need to Know About: Every dog is an individual.
PART FOUR: Increasing Behaviors: Teaching Your Old Dog New Tricks.
Chapter 11: Shaping: You're getting warmer.
Chapter 12: Prompting and Fading: Can you give me a hint?
Chapter 13: Chaining: Building behavior sequences.
Chapter 14: Using Conditioned Reinforcement: Click here for more options.
PART FIVE: Decreasing Behaviors: Dealing with Canine Delinquents.
Chapter 15: Extinction in Action: Don't just do something, stand there.
Chapter 16: Differential Reinforcement: More of this, less of that.
Chapter 17: Antecedent Control: An ounce ofprevention.
Chapter 18: Using Punishment: A question of ethics.
Epilogue.
References.
About the Authors.
Index.
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Kabayan Gaul
reviewed How Dogs Learn on June 15, 2008
How Dogs Learn
Reflecting on changes in dog training approaches since the 1960s, authors Mary Burch and Jon Bailey write in their epilogue, "While most people once wanted a dog that would comply with requests because it was afraid to do otherwise, training has changed dramatically. Now most people want a dog that will work because it wants to" (167). I'm not sure about "most people" (although it's certainly true for me), but the statement is typical of the hopeful picture of training and trainers (especially the future of training) that the authors paint throughout _How Dogs Learn_. This book offers a quick history of operant conditioning and its influence on the development dog training in this century. The authors avoid over-simplifying complex issues--and figures (like Bill Koehler)--while providing useful explanations of key concepts and terms. This book does offer advice for the average dog owner, but is aimed primarily at the trainers who will be translating that advice for their clients. (New dog owners might benefit more from something like _The Idiot's Guide to Positive Dog Training_ by Pam Dennison.) I'm not a trainer, of course, so I guess it's fair to say that this book invites a wider audience too. I understood this book *better* because I'd already read (and put to very good use the methods espoused in) popular books by positive trainers like Pat Miller and Sophia Yin.
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