#179: More Strategies to Reduce Errors

In the last episode, we talked about what errorless learning
really means. And I shared a few strategies that might make it
easier to apply in your training.


Of course, the major benefit to using errorless learning concepts
in your training is the outcome of behaviors with a cleaner
learning history and less emotional baggage.


Of course, we don’t want attempts to avoid errors to mean we also
avoid making progress. We still want to get where we’re going,
just with fewer wrong turns.


In this episode we discuss behavioral momentum, using behavioral
momentum to avoid a lack of response to your cues (a common form
of error), the importance of starting with low criteria and be in
a position to raise that criteria quickly, rather than starting
with an error and being forced to lower that criteria (Thanks,
Bob Bailey!), examples from starting a heeling session, to
working with distance on go outs, to teaching a pony to move
forward on cue, using an indirect, “lateral” approach to
selecting your criteria to avoid hammering on the most fragile
aspect of a behavior you are trying to train, examples include
teaching hold with duration (after breaking it), and working
around emotionally-loaded challenges with heeling or loose-leash
walking, and probably other things I forgot!


For full show notes,
visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/179
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