Jan

Rate of Reinforcement – Separating the Good Trainers From the Great Trainers!

By profdog

Rate of Reinforcement is one of my soapbox topics. There are essentially three things necessary for an animal to learn a new behavior – good timing, motivation, and achievable criteria. Rate of reinforcement will tell you if one of those three things is not in place.

You should strive to have a high rate of reinforcement during the training process. It will necessarily go down when you raise your criteria, but you should have it back up within just a few trials. This is the mark of a good trainer – you are setting achievable criteria! This speeds the learning process and creates a behavior with a solid foundation.

Here’s a short audio clip where I’m explaining how to do rate of reinforcement with loose leash walking.

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