User:Thesoxlost/Dog Training

This page is a work in progress for an article on dog behavior and training. At this point, it is mostly notes, and it may never pass WP:OR criteria.

Schools of dog training have been strongly motivated by psychological models of human and animal behavior and learning. Although there are myriad training paradigms, there are far fewer academic frameworks from which these paradigms are derived.

• Evolutionary Psychology:
• Behaviorism:
• Learning Theory: Learning theory grew out of Behaviorist psychology, and it likely means different things to different academics and trainers. It is advanced beyond Behaviorism because it acknowledges the existence of internal states and their importance in guiding learning and behavior. For instance, a central concept to learning theory is reinforcement learning. At the theoretical level, reinforcement learning is a formal framework for learning from feedback. According to this framework, learning can be achieved by actively anticipating the reward that one will acquire....