*PLEASE NOTE* at the beginning of this video I get the terms mixed up, the proper definitions are as follows:
Positive reinforcement: giving something the dog likes to increase the likelihood of a behaviour being repeated
Negative reinforcement: removing something the dog DISlikes to increase behaviour
Negative Punishment: removing something the dog likes to decrease the likelihood of a behaviour being repeated
Positive punishment: giving the dog something unpleasant to decrease the behaviour
How should you train your dog?
There are a lot of people out there advertising themselves as expert trainers, and different trainers advocate different techniques. What methods does science tell us work best?
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