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I don’t think this would be easy. For training, the reward needs to come as quickly after/during the action as possible. Most dogs don’t have a great mental cap
by silveroriole 7y ago
I don’t think this would be easy. For training, the reward needs to come as quickly after/during the action as possible. Most dogs don’t have a great mental capacity for figuring out that they’re being rewarded for something that isn’t happening right now. If the dog has to wait even 10 seconds for the trainer to figure out whether to reward or not, a lot of dogs are going to get confused.
- logfromblammo 7y agoDuring training/testing a second person, who is not visible, audible, or smellable to the dog, and who knows the conditions of the course, observes the pair via cameras and microphones. When the dog hits on something, the observer presses a button, indicating which target or decoy was indicated, or that an unexpected other object was indicated. The observer may also indicate when the dog seems distracted, or especially attentive to the handler. A computer takes the buttons as inputs, and if its intermittent reinforcement program indicates it, the handler receives an instruction to reward the dog. The program may also reward the dog for misses, or just for paying attention to handler instructions, so the handler is not able to associate rewards with accurate hits. The handler then still has to investigate the hit to determine what the dog found.