Question

Imagine you live in a house with a backyard. The door to the backyard is in your family room. You let your dog Felix out into the backyard a few times a day. You decide you would like to teach Felix to bump the doorknob on the back door with his nose before you let him outside. Currently, whenever Felix wants to go outside, he walks around the family room and often walks past the back door. Describe how you will use shaping to teach Felix to bump the doorknob with his nose. Think about using a clicker to shape Felix’s behavior.

Answer 1

So, the psychologist and other professionals have set a sequence or steps of a simple but very interesting process, that would teach an animal how to follow up on the steps thought by his or her master or we can say trainer.

• As, there are certain number of steps which the specific animal is required to follow, and that each step is tested multiple times by the organism in order to get the required award.

• So, for that reason there are number of professionals and they are able to teach the dog how to go through the whole process by attempting a certain actions and then acquiring some reward for that very action performed by the animal.