What You Need to Know Starting Off: Valence & Stimuli

VIDEOS, PODCASTS, & LIGHT READING:

Manage it! Hacks for Improving Your Dog’s Behavior by Juliana DeWillems

What the F*** is Management? With Julianna DeWillems — Cog Dog Radio

Understanding Reinforcement Part One: “Isn’t That a Jackpot?” —Cog Dog Radio

Understanding Reinforcement Part Two: Relief Contingencies — Cog Dog Radio

Reinforcement Misunderstandings — Cog Dog Radio

More than Manners: Types of Learning by Liz Laidlaw

How Dogs Learn by Mary Burch

Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown

Understanding the Link between canine pain and problem behaviors — Veterinary Ireland Journal, February 2025

DEEPER READING:

Vazard, J. Feeling the Unknown: Emotions of Uncertainty and Their Valence. Erkenn 89, 1275–1294 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00583-1

Mills, D.S.; Demontigny-Bédard, I.; Gruen, M.; Klinck, M.P.; McPeake, K.J.; Barcelos, A.M.; Hewison, L.; Van Haevermaet, H.; Denenberg, S.; Hauser, H.; et al. Pain and Problem Behavior in Cats and Dogs. Animals 2020, 10, 318. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10020318

Definition of Aversive

Definition of Appetitive

Can A, Dao DT, Arad M, Terrillion CE, Piantadosi SC, Gould TD. The mouse forced swim test. J Vis Exp. 2012 Jan 29;(59):e3638. doi: 10.3791/3638. PMID: 22314943; PMCID: PMC3353513.

Cristiano Valerio dos Santos, Tauane Gehm, Maria Helena Leite Hunziker, Learned helplessness in the rat: Effect of response topography in a within-subject design, Behavioural Processes, Volume 86, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 178-183, ISSN 0376-6357, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2010.11.005.

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