[quote user="corvus"]No one has answered my question about whether pressure is punishment or not. Can it still be punishment if the animal doesn't dislike it, but still changes its behaviour slightly? [/quote] Thinking of pressure AS punishment isn't helpful to me. But, thinking of...

These are two words that seem to some people to be loaded with negativity. For me, it greatly depends on who is saying them. But when *I* use them, I don't mean them negatively at all. If I "correct", I am probably saying "ah ah!" to stop a dog in his tracks so I can redirect...

corgipower, you don't claim to not use punishment and you don't "preach" to those who do, so yeah, call it whatever you like. I call it corrections sometimes, too, but not to avoid being seen as using punishment. I'm right up front about that. [quote user="glenmar"]In...

Well, we could all make up our own definitions of the word so that we wouldn't have to say that we use "punishment", but that doesn't change the fact. I'm surprised to see the scientific among us resorting to various definitions and sloppiness when it comes to this particular word...

[quote] Definition: Punishment is a term from Psychological Learning Theory that has a precise meaning; it refers to something that causes a behavior to lessen in intensity. There is nothing that is intrinsically punishing. A thing is called punishing if, when it is applied, it results in the reduction...

[quote user="glenmar"]Wait, now an eh eh is being seen as a punishment? [/quote] That depends on your intent when you say it. A. Is it something added to the environment to decrease the likelihood of a behavior happening again? If so, it is positive punishment. B. Is it a "no-reward marker"...

Here's what I've discovered in the past week or so and I wanted to bring the discussion back to this thread so as not to mess up any other threads that are going with similar subjects. I hope we can always come back to here with the "straggler" discussions. Subject: Positive Punishment...