#244 HorseGym with Boots TARGET & TICKLE

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People are often confused with the scientific terms: Positive Reinforcement and Negative Reinforcement. 'Negative' means 'bad' in everyday language, but used in the mathematical sense, as is here, it simply means removing something from a situation. We touch the horse's chest to ask him to step back and when he does, we remove our hand from his chest (-R).

'Positive' in everyday language means something 'good'. But used in the mathematical sense, as it is here, it simply means adding something to a situation. The horse approaches us and when he does, we give him a strip of carrot. We have added the carrot to the situation (+R).

Both situations reinforce the horse's behavior. We can use a touch on the chest, take away the touch when the horse steps back, plus mark the stepping back behavior with a special sound, then deliver a treat. This is 'combined reinforcement' because we have used both types of reinforcement to help the horse understand just what we would like him to do.
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