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- From: jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: Help me find a kitty.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.001226.6514@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 00:12:25 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.025945.8955@pony.Ingres.COM> <1jpetcINN9dk@nigel.msen.com>
- Reply-To: jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger)
- Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
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- Karen Sugalski writes:
- > Negative reinforcement can take many forms, including the methods
- > used by a mother cat to let her kittens know that they have done
- > something she doesn't like.
-
- By the way, you mean punishment here. Negative reinforcement
- refers to increasing behavior, punishment to decreasing it.
-
- Your example is interesting, though. Could it be that sometimes
- cats are not ideal trainers of other cats? Of course. Good
- training methods are good whether trainer belongs to the same
- species as trainee or not. Mom's training methods are far from
- the ultimate definition of good. However, species specific
- methods are also useful. By examining what mom does we might
- discover something that other trainers (and handlers) can use too.
-
- -- Jon
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- Jon Krueger jpk@ingres.com
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