Temple Grandin Quotes

Cats are great with clicker training. There's a great video you can get called "Clicker Magic". There's a scene in that video where a cat is trained to go through a mini dog agility course - it's all done with food motivation and clicker training. You can train them to do all sorts of thing.

When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.

You could train cats do things, a lot of people don't think cats aren't trainable. Cats can be trusted just a friend.

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.

Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.

Reinforcement is being right.

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.

You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.

I found this deer toy that poops out candy. And so if I say, 'Cree, you have to go to bed right now. You will get a candy.' We've named the pooping deer 'Gus.'... He gets a jelly bean. And it works. Positive reinforcement is the way to go. I'm learning things like that which help me be a better parent.

You have to train a dog to think.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it the training becomes a lot more rigorous which has to be done carefully otherwise you are in danger of stressing the dog.

We are human beings. We operate from wanting to be rewarded.

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.

It's natural canine behavior to chew on all sorts of things, roll in other animals' droppings, hump and fight other dogs, menace anything that invades the home. All these behaviors can be curbed, but that takes a lot of work. Trainers say it requires nearly 2,000 repetitions of a behavior for a dog to completely absorb it.

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.