{"id":5558,"date":"2019-06-04T11:23:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T09:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2024-12-30T21:21:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T20:21:06","slug":"the-modern-principles-of-shaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/the-modern-principles-of-shaping\/","title":{"rendered":"The Modern Principles of Shaping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in 1984, Karen Pryor wrote the 10 Laws of Shaping into her book Don’t shoot the dog.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That book, and those laws, have been extremely influential in shaping the contemporary animal training community. But inevitably, some of those laws became outdated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, 30 years later, she and her team updated them – they’re now called the Modern Principles of Shaping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Incidentally, the principles can all be understood in terms of traffic signs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The video below is from my Advanced Animal Training (AAT) course, where I explain what the Modern Principles are all about – and how to use them in your training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what those traffic signs are all about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(If you’re unfamiliar with shaping, imagine it’s like going up a staircase from where-you-are<\/em> to where-you-need-to-be.<\/em> On each step is a new criterion that is reinforced – as you progress up the staircase, stop reinforcing old criteria on previous steps. Shaping is one of several ways of getting behaviour.<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click the CC-button at the bottom right to get English subtitles. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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