Library Articles K9 Learning Theory

 

Word Learning in a Domestic Dog: Evidence for "Fast Mapping"
Juliane Kaminski, Josep Call, Julia Fischer

Negative Punishment
Deborah Palman, Maine Warden Service (PDF file 115K)

Timing is Everything
Deborah Palman, Maine Warden Service (PDF file 77K)

Operant Psychology Goes to the Fair: Marian and Keller Breland in
the Popular Press, 1947–1966
Robert E. Bailey, Animal Behavior Enterprises and J. Arthur Gillaspy, Jr.
University of Central Arkansas (PDF 534K)

The efficacy of the model-rival method when compared with operant conditioning for training domestic dogs to perform a retrieval-selection task Sue McKinley and Robert Young, November 2002. (PDF 91K)

Clicker increases resistance to extinction but does not decrease training time of a simple operant task in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris)
Shawn M. Smith a, Ellen S. Davis, April 2007. (PDF 262K)

Training dogs with help of the shock collar: short and long term behavioural effects
Matthijs B.H. Schilder, Joanne A.M. van der Borg, October 2003 (PDF 245K)

Affiliative and disciplinary behavior of human handlers during play with their dog affects cortisol concentrations in opposite directions. Horváth, Zs., Dóka, A., Miklósi, Á. 2008. (PDF 539KB)

In search for the stability of personality traits in dogs: testing the consistency of dogs' reaction to threatening cues of an unfamiliar person. Vas, J., Topál, J., Győri, B. and Miklósi, Á. 2008 (pdf 231kb)