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BASIC TRAINING TECHNIQUE - CLASSICAL CONDITIONNING TECHNIQUES
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IN TYPICAL CLASSICAL CONDITIONNING TRAINING, the typical procedure for inducing classical conditioning involves presentations of a neutral stimulus along with a stimulus of some significance.
The neutral stimulus could be any event that does not result in an overt behavioral response from the organism under investigation.
Classical conditioning is used by trainers for two purposes: To condition (train) autonomic responses, such as the drooling, producing adrenaline, or reducing adrenaline (calming) without using the stimuli that would naturally create such a response; and, to create an association between a stimulus that normally would not have any effect on the animal and a stimulus that would.
Stimuli that animals react to without training are called primary or unconditioned stimuli (US). They include food, pain, and other "hardwired" or "instinctive" stimuli. Animals do not have to learn to react to an electric shock, for example.
Classical conditioning is very important to animal trainers, because it is difficult to supply an animal with one of the things it naturally likes (or dislikes) in time for it to be an important consequence of the behavior.
With classical conditionning, trainers will ber able to associate something that's easier to "deliver" with something the animal wants through classical conditioning. With dogs trainers oftenly use a clicker, a cricket-like box with a metal tongue that makes a click-click sound when you press it.
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