Education for women is the best way to lower birth rates, the argument goes, and the better educated a women is, the more she will postpone motherhood. The unstated implication is that the later motherhood is postponed, the fewer children women will manage to have, due to age-related ferti...
The Premack Principle is also known as“Gradmas's Law.” Parents (and Grandmas) use it naturally all the time. It is the principle that offering something that happens often in a free operant situation to be contingent upon something else that happens with low frequency. Is NCR an anteceden...
There is another question to be answered before considering the question in the title of this commentary: “Whatisa free operant, anyway?” It is an expression that sometimes appears in talks and articles, but it isn’t as commonly used as it once was.Free operantoriginally described an exper...
What is a compound stimulus? Conditioning: There are two types of conditioning in psychology. The first is classical conditioning where a person learns to react a particular way to a stimulus, whether that stimulus is a word, a situation, or an object. The second is operant conditioning where...
Free Puppy Ebook! Video Examples for Trainers Desensitization & Counterconditioning ContactReview of Pet Shell’s Report: Your Dog Will Hear Fireworks and Thunder Inside Posted on February 16, 2025 by Eileen Anderson If your dog is afraid of noises, please take that seriously. Sound reactivity...