The expirence I'd like to share about my reinforcment procedure involves my dog Lucy. Lucy is a chow and black labrador mix. Currently Lucy is one and half years old. I have used reinforcment while training her to respond in a conditioned way.

Lucy's favorite food is sliced american cheese. Using the cheese as a conditioned stimulus, I have trained Lucy to give a desired conditioned response. When I told Lucy to sit and she did, I would give her a slice of che

Knowing that cheese is her favorite food, I also use it as a negative reinforcment. Lucy loves to run out the door when people enter the house. I live on a street that gets a good deal of traffic, let alone it is ilegal for her to be running around loose. Afraid that she may get hit by a car, or picked up by the dog warden, I have to reinforce this behavior. Each time Lucy decides to run outside on her own free will, I go into the refridgerator and tell her "no cheese for Lucy" as I grab the cheese. Lucy will sit and do all the tricks she knows to get the cheese, but I do not give in to her.

Stimuli similar to the discriptive stimulus also produces responses, this process is known as generalization. I find it comincal to use this process with Lucy. I don't believe she has any idea as to why I am laughing at her, but

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