Kay Laurence - Learning About Dogs

The Point of Learning or How to Get Peaches

August 26, 2020 Season 3 Episode 5
Kay Laurence - Learning About Dogs
The Point of Learning or How to Get Peaches
Show Notes

What is the point of learning?

"When that brand new brain gets into motion it is going to have to find out how to secure the rewards needed for life, and once that is achieved set about finding the very best rewards, and lots of them. On a daily, minute by minute basis."

In this episode of the "Learning About Dogs," Sue McGuire  and Kay Laurence of "Learning About Dogs,"  talk about how the mind-blowing experience of having a  peak of the season peach from California cemented understanding of REWARD PREDICTION ERROR.

Season 3 of the "Learning about Dogs" podcast is about rewards and reward skill.

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The more we explore and blend the theory, biology and application it is clear that this is not a simple process, it is complex and very sophisticated. With active minds open to learning we can continue to understand more, apply in an educated format and improve the combination of learning and dogs that we know and love and call training.