Clicker Training

What is Clicker training? It’s an animal training method based on behavioural psychology, it relies on marking good behavior and rewarding it. Posative behavior is usually marked by using the clicker, it is a mechanical device that makes a short, distinct "click" sound which tells the animal exactly when they're doing the right thing.

While clicker training initially employs classical conditioning, it quickly becomes operant conditioning as soon as the animal intentionally repeats an action in order to earn a reward. Training through operant conditioning results in purposeful behavior, while training through classical conditioning results in usual behavior.

This Book with its clear form of communication, combined with positive reinforcement, is an successful, safe, and humane way to teach any animal any behavior that it is physically and mentally capable of doing.

The effectiveness of clicker training

When an animal deliberately performs a behavior in order to bring about a wanted result, as clicker trained animals do, they are learning in a way that is call “operant conditioning.” Animals may associate an action, event, place, person, or object with a result, whether pleasant or unpleasant. The more a certain event or surroundings is paired with a particular consequence, the stronger the association.This type of learning is called “classical conditioning” and represents automatic behavior, rather than deliberate behavior.

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