Objectives
- What is fading off the prompt?
- What is the prerequisite?
- How to fading from lure
- Fading from presentations
What is fading off the prompt?
A training process that results in the dog responding to the final desired cue from the handler.
What is the prerequisite?
How to fade from lure?
The basics
- Always give the desired cue (voice, pager, whistle, hand signal, etc..) first
- Then use lure into behavior
- It is OK to repeat the cue during the process as long as there is a slight pause between each cue.
- It is a good technique when you are trying "less lure" but misjudge and give "more lure" next time you give teh cue.
- When the dog accomplishes the behavior, MARK it at that exact moment.
- Slowly fade away the lure on each new repeatition until you notice the dog responds on the cue only.
First Considerations
- There are three benchmarks initially.
- How much you can fade from the lure without the dog needing to consciously move away from the lure to complete the behavior.
- Getting over the hump of the dog moving away from the lure.
- Not needing the lure at all. k The dog responds only to the cue
Second Considerations
- Once the dog responds to a cue without luring pay attention to additional prompts.
- Head movements
- Body postures
- Body positions
- Always work on this. Do not confuse with environmental generalization.
- I suggest keeping good notes to exactly what the dog has accomplished in phase 1.
- This can be expanded upon in phase 2 with the hekp of the leash.
Did you not use a lure?
- Differential reinforcement - reward only in the presence of the cue
- "speak"
- down
- bring
- etc..
thanks for this! Is a simple way to think of lure vs prompt is that the lure is with food and the prompt is body language?
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“Prompt” is a broad term that encompasses any technique used to encourag behavior. Luring is a specific type of prompt that describe using something appealing to encourage movement toward it.
Therefore, if you are using a treat above a dog’s nose to encourage it to move from a down to a sit position you would be luring (and also considered a prompt)
But, if you were crowding the dog with your body to encourage the dog to shuffle its paws under its body and lift its front end off the floor into a sit position, that would be prompting but not luring. Also, touching the dog’s rear to encourage them to sit would be a prompt (but not luring).
If you place a piece of tape on a dogs nose, to encourage it to touch its nose with its paw (for a trick) that would also be a prompt.
So, prompt is just about anything to get the behavior, but luring is specific type of prompt.
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