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Clicker Training
Clicker Training is inside the Positive Training,
and it doesn't use punishment. It is based on the principles of the
operant conditioning (also called
instrumental ) that is born in 1943 when the experimental
psychologist and behaviorist Burrhus Frédéric Skinner begins to develop
it.
 Clicker
with big animals
Around 1950 the method was used to train dolphins
for the US Army and then for several marine parks. Nowadays it is used
with success in the zoologicals of the world with big animals.
Clicker with Dogs
Clicker Training for dogs is popularized on the
year 1984 with the book "Don't shoot the dog" written by the biologist
Karen Pryor.
The Clicker
The clicker is just a tool that we use. It consists
on a box with a metallic sheet inside that emits a sound "click" when
press it. Clicker is not indispensable because we can use a whistle
(like in the case of the dolphins), an electronic device that emits
a sound or simply a word or sound made with the mouth, although it is
preferable that the sound is short, easily audible and always repeat
equally.
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The
laboratory of B.F.Skinner in 1943 installed under the water tanks
in the terrace of the building with the poster "Eventually" in
Minneapolis (Picture: Minnesota Historical Society)
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B.
F. Skinner in the terrace next to their laboratory.
The poster "Eventually" leaves behind him.
(Picture: Robert Bailey)
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