"When do I know when it's time to stop giving food rewards?"
Dangerous at Both Ends, Tricky in the MiddleShow Notes
One of our listeners got in touch with a question that comes up a lot when people start exploring positive reinforcement training: "When do I know when it's time to stop giving food rewards?" It seems like a simple question. But the more we talked about it, the more we found ourselves asking: Why do we want to stop? If reinforcement maintains behaviour, what happens when reinforcement disappears? And why are we so keen to remove a tool from the toolbox when it's working? In this episode, Jen ...
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