Description
Download Karen Pryor's articles and research papers on animal behavior and training, from popular magazines and the peer-reviewed scientific literature.
“Karen Pryor at
her wittiest and most perceptive.”
—from the foreword by Ellen Reese, Ph.D.
Topics include:
REINFORCEMENT
TRAINING (Clicker Training)
These selections are discussions
by Karen Pryor of the uses and implications of marker-based training for
both basic and applied research in a variety of settings.
- Reinforcement Training as Interspecies Communication
- If I Could Talk to the Animals: Reinforcement Interactions as Communication
- The Rhino Likes Violets
HUMANS
AND OPERANT CONDITIONING
These selections are essays observing
aspects of positive reinforcement, shaping, and stimulus control in human society.
- Orchestra Conductors Would Make Good Porpoise Trainers
- Why Punishment Doesn't Work
ON DOLPHIN
BEHAVIOR AND FIELD STUDIES
Classic field studies on dolphin behavior,
these selections are examples of Karen Pryor
