A few years ago I taught my dog how to sit and do a few tricks and I want to use the behavioral approach to explain how I thought my dog. When I first started to train him I pushed his back down and yelled sit, if he sat I gave him a treat which was the re enforcer and if he refused to sit I did not give him any treat. The reason why the treat was the reinforcer, which was a positive reinforce, because that causes a behavior to occur with greater frequency. And since I did not give him any treats while he didn’t sit that was the negative punishment which made him decrease in that behavior.
A few years ago I taught my dog how to sit and do a few tricks and I want to use the behavioral approach to explain how I thought my dog. When I first started to train him I pushed his back down and yelled sit, if he sat I gave him a treat which was the re enforcer and if he refused to sit I did not give him any treat. The reason why the treat was the reinforcer, which was a positive reinforce, because that causes a behavior to occur with greater frequency. And since I did not give him any treats while he didn’t sit that was the negative punishment which made him decrease in that behavior.