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Debbie SykesNashville Wildlife Conservation

Nashville, TNdebbie@nashvillewildlifeconservation.org

Classical Conditioning

Classical ConditioningMe=Good

Help our animals overcome their fears

Goal

Learn how to add classical conditioning to your training toolbelt

Topic

s ● What is it● Systematic Desensitization/Counterconditioning● How we can use it

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s it Cperant lassical

Eileen and Dogs

Two Types of Conditioning/Learning Voluntary Involuntary

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t is i

t

UR

CS

UR

Real LifeBell=Buzzer or MetronomeDog Food=Meat Powder

Wha

t is i

t We pair something neutral with something that already elicits an emotional response until the neutral stimulus has the same response as the known stimulus.

Wha

t is i

t?Changing Emotions

https://www.thestar.com/life/2016/03/18/crates-and-car-rides-dont-have-to-terrify-your-cat.html

Wha

t is i

t?

Wha

t is i

t >Animals learn successively

Lilli Chin

Wha

t is i

t UR

>Don’t let the good thing become a predictor of a bad thing

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t is i

t

to remember that you are a stimulus

DS/C

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Not Sensitizing (reacting)

Stimulus becomes neutral

Relax!!!

DSystematic Desensitization and Classical Conditioning…

What is it?

Opposite Learning

Stimulus becomes good (ideally)

Cesensitizationounter onditioning

DS/C

C

Changing the emotional state

& then

Westlund, 2015

DS

Desensitization

Changing a stimulus to neutral

Staying under threshold= not threatening

It goes away

NOT HANGING OUT IN THE ENCLOSURE

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Beware of Sensitizing!DS

/CC

Do not pass the threshold

CC

https://youtu.be/sI13v9JgJu0

UNDER THRESHOLD

JUST A FEW MORE MINUTES OF TRAINING

New Potentially Scary ThingsIntroducing

new handlers

Trust bank account

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se it

Palpation

In R

eview

● Changes the Emotional State● Not Asking the Animal to do Anything

● Working Below Threshold● Animals Learn Successively

-Bob BaileyPavlov is always on your shoulder

Thank you!!Debbie Sykes

Nashville Wildlife Conservationdebbie@nashvillewildlifeconservation.org