{"id":1458,"date":"2016-06-16T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illis.se\/en\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2024-12-30T20:59:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T19:59:31","slug":"infected-situations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/infected-situations\/","title":{"rendered":"Infected situations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m almost done giving my first online course!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to share some of the course content here on my blog, and choosing was difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So,&nbsp;I got some help from my students. I asked them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Out of the course videos you&#8217;ve seen so far, which do you like the best?&nbsp;One that taught you something important that you think the rest of the world of pet owners or animal professionals would benefit from?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several students&nbsp;suggested chapter 11 from the GRIEF module entitled Infected Situations. So&nbsp;&#8211; here it is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>A little bit of background to put this film into context. It&#8217;s chapter 11, which means that 10 chapters have been leading up to this discussion.&nbsp;In the previous chapter&nbsp;I described&nbsp;Conditioned Emotional Responses* and how they impact learning and behaviour, and I finished by asking&nbsp;my students to think of a situation where they&#8217;ve observed emotional learning impacting their animal&#8217;s behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then in chapter 11, I follow up with my own example, introducing&nbsp;the concept of infected situations to illustrate how emotional learning may impact trainability:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/184040032?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Could you think of other reasons why a cross-over animal, who has been trained using aversive techniques, wouldn&#8217;t respond so well to clicker training?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Conditioned emotional responses result from classical conditioning. Typically many people only consider <em>reflexive responses<\/em> in classical conditioning, such as salivation or eye blinking, but there is an emotional component too &#8211; and it&#8217;s way more important and relevant, since it has a huge impact on overt behaviour!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, if seeing a cat (a neutral stimulus) is paired with the pain of being scratched by the cat (an unconditioned stimulus), then the cat may become a conditioned stimulus that elicits FEAR (a conditioned emotional response, and also a core emotion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FEAR impacts behaviour in several ways. In the training context I see at least four undesirable potential side effects of FEAR:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>the animal&#8217;s learning and cognition is impaired, and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the animal may sensitize (become even more fearful)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the animal may slip into RAGE (another core emotion).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first case, animals may be labelled &#8220;stubborn&#8221;, &#8220;stupid&#8221; or &#8220;not food motivated&#8221; and treated accordingly by the oblivious trainer, and in the latter case, the animal may become dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recognizing effects of emotional learning is important &#8211; yet it&#8217;s only one of the many <a href=\"http:\/\/illis.se\/en\/animal-trainers-take-animal-emotions-into-consideration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reasons why we as animal trainers should take emotions into consideration<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This course on animal emotions contains 100+ short films like the one above. They&#8217;re 1-12 minutes long and delivered in 10 modules over 10 weeks &#8211; and students have access to the course for 12 months. We also discuss the content in the comments&#8217; section of each film as well as in an exclusive Facebook Group. Sound interesting? 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