Behavioral applications regarding canines.

Color poster with text and tables describing research conducted by Erin E. Barney, Kristine A. Funk, and Holly S. Perszyk, advised by Daniel D. Holt.BARC is a UW-Eau Claire collaborative faculty/student, community-based (Eau Claire Humane Association) program, where students are able to gain firsthand experience teaching dogs socially appropriatge behaviors using a behavior analytic approach. This program also offers students opportunities to practice applying the principles and terminology of operant conditioning learned in prerequisite course work for the program.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. Eau Claire County Human Association

Is Ending Training Sessions with a Correct Trial a Strong Predictor of Subsequent Trial Success?

Color poster with text, images, and graphs (Spring 2009)The basic operant conditioning paradigm states that behavior is followed by consequences and when these consequences are reinforcing, the likelihood of the behavior occurring again increases. Animal trainers have been in disagreement regarding whether ending a session with a correct trail is or is not a strong predictor of success in subsequent training sessions. The present study examined if the canines? first trials in subsequent training sessions would be effected by ending with either a correct or incorrect trial.University of Wisconsin--Green Bay Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

Evaluating Effectiveness of Prompting Ratio Procedures in Basic Canine Obedience Training.

Color poster with text, images, and graphs describing research conducted by Kristine A. Funk, Holly S. Persyzk, Jonah P. Streff, and Erin E. Barney.Canine obedience training commonly utilizes hand movements, called prompts, of varying degrees to guide dogs to perform a behavior for the first time. Trainers employing various prompting procedures have observed that these prompts oftern become the signal for behavior to occur, instead of a verbal command serving as the signal. The goal of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a common training procedure using three different rations of prompted trials to probe trials (5:1, 3:1, and 1:1) when teaching young canines to sit and shake.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Prompting Ration Procedures for Canine Skill Acquistion

Color poster with text, images, and graphs.Prompts are commonly utilized to teach canines novel skills during canine obedience training with the goal of having control of the desired behavior transferred from the prompt to a vocal command. Over prompting or fading prompts too quickly may be detrimental to skill acquisition. To remedy the issue past research has used a prompt to probe method (Mattingly & Bott,1990) to determine when control of the behavior has been transferred from the prompt to the verbal command. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of 3 different prompt to probe ratios, 1:1, 3:1, and 5:1, when teaching various skills to canines.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Program

Evaluation of Three Leash-Training Approaches with Canines

Color poster with text, images, and graphs.For a dog handler's safety and leisure enjoyment it is important to have a leash trained dog. Different leash training techniques are promoted in canine training literature, but no published research has systematically made comparisons of them. The current study examined how long it would take for a dog to reach mastery of leash walking using one of three distinct training approaches.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Program