According to foreign media BGR, more and more people are beginning to like feeding pet dogs, correcting their various bad behaviors and promoting proactive personal behaviors. However, in recent years, positive intensive training based on rewards ha...
According to foreign media BGR, more and more people are beginning to like feeding pet dogs, correcting their various bad behaviors and promoting proactive personal behaviors. However, in recent years, positive intensive training based on rewards has long exceeded the outdated negative intensive training. A new study shows that the former has a lot of benefits.
For many people, negative intensive training is basically a subconscious mind for dogs with various bad behaviors. For example, when you see a puppy peeing at the furniture, you will involuntarily shout at the puppy. The puppies terminate what they have done and finally understand the adverse effects of the unified action of these negative information.
The top priority of this study is the phenomenon of young dogs trained using negative reinforcement techniques or positive reinforcement methods. The research staff used 92 dogs from seven different training universities as sample versions and applied two training methods in one of them. They conducted statistical analysis of individual behaviors related to work stress in each dog during and after training.
They found that compared with young dogs who were trained with no loud yelling or leash tightening, dogs trained with negative reinforcement showed greater stress responses in personal behaviors—including licking lips, yawning and stretching out front paws. This is the case during and after training, which means that even if the dog returns home, the work pressure they bear will not be easily recovered.
This itself is a key discovery, but the researchers additionally sampled the stress response female hormones of each small animal during the entire observation process. In dogs trained using negative intensive methods, the level of stress response aldosterone increases during the training process. Another experiment requires dogs to look for a bowl full of ingredients in the house. Researchers trained dogs to understand that if they were looking for bowls on one side of the house, they would be rewarded; but if they were looking for bowls on the other side of the house, the bowl would be empty.
They then put the bowl on any part of the room to observe the dog's reaction. Compared with the young dogs who receive reward training, the young dogs who are under negative intensive training are more negative and bypass the bowl. Researchers described it as a dog with high work stress that has mild depression. In addition, this study shows that training based on rewards has significant advantages over the old methods.
