{"id":4582,"date":"2018-05-03T23:16:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T21:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/?p=4582"},"modified":"2024-12-30T21:07:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T20:07:28","slug":"redefine-training-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/redefine-training-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we need to redefine “training” – or “behaviour”? Or both?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Originally published in 2018; revised May 2023<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my online courses is called Getting Behaviour – The Foundations of Animal Training.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My students are really excited about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m very proud of it, and I had this idea to share part of the course for free, here on the blog. The course is about 13 hours long and contains 109 short videos, so I wanted to pick one<\/em> of those videos and share with you. The best one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was difficult. Which video to choose?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

After racking my brain for a while, I asked my current students for their help in making the selection, and they eagerly jumped at the opportunity and suggested a handful of their personal favourites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, they all suggested that I share different<\/em> chapters – in fact, there was only one<\/em> chapter that got several votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two votes<\/em>, to be exact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kinda disappointing, I had sort of hoped that the students would all point to one video being The Best Video In The Course<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No such thing, apparently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But one of those videos actually got two votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I’m sharing it here, on this page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Training is about the animal learning and changing his behaviour. But what is behaviour, then?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So, without further ado, here’s chapter 2, called “what is training – and behaviour” from Module 1 of the Getting Behaviour course. It’s one of the longest videos of the course, normally they’re two to eight minutes long. This one’s 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toggle the little blue CC-button at the bottom right of the film to see the English subtitles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is behaviour?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may think you know\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

or maybe not..! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019re not alone \u2013 even behavioural biologists disagree on this topic. And one would expect them to know!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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