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Herrnstein’s Matching Law and Dog Training

Posted on June 14, 2018March 12, 2021 by eileenanddogs

Chocolate cookies on a cookie sheet. The baker may do other activities while the cookies are baking as long as she shows up at the right time. Her behavior follows the matching law. — **When we bake cookies, some reinforcement is on a variable interval schedule.**

What Is the Matching Law?

Have you heard trainers talking about the matching law? This post covers a bit of its history and the nuts and bolts of what it is about. I am providing this rather technical article because I want something to link to in some other written pieces about how the matching law has affected my own training of my dogs.

How Long Does It Take To Change a Habit?

Posted on November 9, 2017July 18, 2019 by Eileen Anderson

Changing a habit often takes longer than we think. Habits, AKA reinforced behaviors, die hard.

Here’s what happened when I changed the location of my dogs’ eating areas for the first time in about five years. Continue reading “How Long Does It Take To Change a Habit?”