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Originally Posted by Acetylene
So is any other book that even MENTIONS the word "Pavlovian." Pavlovian training operates under the assumption that your dog is an unthinking machine that is only capable of learning through terror-induced trial-and-error.
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Wooooahhh. If there's a school of training that's called "Pavlovian," then that's that. But Pavlov's "Classical Conditioning" is simply a model for learning based on associating two events that occur close together in time. So a dog that pees on the floor getting immediately whapped with a newspaper IS Pavlov type teaching, so is a dog peeing in the backyard getting a tastey treat right away. There's certainly the fear-induced side of the coin, but that coin is not without the reward side.
I just... felt like defending Pavlov. I don't know why.