Shaping is a wonderful tool to teach your parrot any single behaviour without force. Shaping is breaking down the goal behaviour (in this case, the step up) into tiny manageable steps which are reinforced along the way. You can shape the step up onto your hand, arm or perch. Some […]
Monthly Archives: January 2021
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Building a history of reinforcement from almost nothing We all have to start somewhere. A new parrot will have had no time yet to build a nice long history of reinforcing outcomes with us. Maybe that parrot is used to humans and being handled in which case new reinforcing consequences […]
If the outcome to a behaviour is desirable, then we will repeat that behaviour. That outcome or consequence is therefore said to be reinforcing. Positive Reinforcement As trainers we can engineer the outcome so that our parrots repeat behaviours that are desirable to them and us. This is the premise […]