School For The Dogs Podcast

A listener who is studying for the MCAT exam wrote in to ask if there were any dog training scenarios that could help illustrate some of the terms she needed to know for the psychology section of the exam. Annie, who has learned most of what she knows about dog training from working with dogs rather than from studying terms or taking exams, does her best to help make some "science-y" concepts more understandable through the lens of dog training and human behavior as we experience in everyday life. She talks about schedules of reinforcement, learned behaviors vs preinstalled behaviors, learning by observation and more.  Mentioned in this episode:  Excel-Erated Learning: Explaining In Plain English How Dogs Learn And How Best To Teach Them, by Pamela J. Reid https://amzn.to/3fN3RfW Don't Shoot The Dog by Karen Pryor  https://amzn.to/2Mugnpc Behavior Principles in Everyday Life by John D. Baldwin and Janice I. Baldwin https://amzn.to/30jJxNH Bobo Doll Experiment  https://www.britannica.com/event/Bobo-doll-experi