#166: Why is Shaping So Hard?, Pt. 2

In this episode, we discuss why we often consider shaping to be
an advanced technique, why I think it doesn’t have to/shouldn’t
be that way, why I think how many of us first learned about
shaping is contributing to the problem, how the expectations we
have around shaping (based on how we were taught) might be
getting in the way of doing good training, the two expectations
that can get in the way: that shaping is linear and that it
should be spontaneous, changing how we think about shaping to
consider the whole ABC contingency can allow us to do better
training without having to struggle so much, how you can set
yourself and your dog up for success and it is still shaping!,
there is no cheating in shaping as long as you are being honest
with yourself (and your dog), setting up for success means a lot
more than just training in a low distraction environment, the
shaping staircase is a great model for teaching someone about the
concept of successive approximation, but it is limiting in real
life application, consider building behaviors from components,
the first “step” in your shaping plan may look nothing like the
final behavior and it might even seem to be farther away from
your goal than where you are now!


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