The Science and Technology of Dog Training by James O’Heare

Author:James O’Heare
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BehaveTech Publishing
Published: 2017-11-08T00:00:00+00:00

Preparing a Formal Behavior Objective

Assessing the Dog’s Current Proficiency

Once you have defined your target behavior (or target behaviors, if breaking the plan down into steps or preparing a chaining plan) with appropriate criteria, you should assess the dog’s current proficiency with respect to the behavior(s). Can the dog currently exhibit the behavior in its final form? If they cannot, what approximation of the behavior does the dog currently exhibit? If they do exhibit the behavior, is it within the criterion latency? Are there other criteria that the behavior currently meet? Are there any other criteria that the behavior does not meet? Can you evoke the behavior with a different cue than the one you have planned for it? What is the stimulus or prompt that currently evokes the behavior? Appreciating the dog’s current proficiency in mediating the behavior, and which criteria are currently met and not met, will inform your behavior objectives, particularly in terms of what time-frame it might require to train the behavior fully to meet all of the criteria. This will also inform what procedures you might require or where in the process you will need to begin. Prepare a statement identifying the proficiency of the subject in exhibiting the target behavior as part of the training plan.

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