{"id":734,"date":"2016-04-08T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T07:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illis.se\/en\/?p=734"},"modified":"2024-12-30T20:57:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T19:57:59","slug":"seeking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/seeking\/","title":{"rendered":"The SEEKING system &#8211; a fascinating core emotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s topic takes off from last week&#8217;s post on <a href=\"http:\/\/illis.se\/en\/two-models-of-animal-emotions\/\">improving animal welfare by integrating two models of emotions,<\/a> and is all about the SEEKING system.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"the SEEKING system - a core emotion\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TzdPQ13-KGE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have six minutes, here&#8217;s the major take-home message:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SEEKING is a multi-purpose emotional system that helps animals find resources<\/li>\n<li>SEEKING is about expectation<\/li>\n<li>We do animals a disservice by serving food in bowls rather than engaging the SEEKING system<\/li>\n<li>If we&#8217;re not&nbsp;offering&nbsp;acceptable SEEKING opportunities, animals may engage in unwanted behaviour instead<\/li>\n<li>Clicker training engages the SEEKING system, which explains the focus, energy, ease of learning and retention typically seen in clicker-trained animals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The webinar replay that I mention at the end of the video is no longer availabe, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>Fear not. I typically teach a lot of free behaviour-related content whenever I launch any of my online courses. Sign up to get notified about courses, free webinars and new blog posts!<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why serving food in a bowl is a disservice to animals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6816,"href":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/6816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}