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Bad Behavior

I can’t believe I haven’t put this list in my collection of frameworks.

These are the eight ways to untrain a bad behavior, from Karen Pryor’s Don’t Shoot the Dog.

  1. Shoot the dog
  2. Punishment
  3. Negative reenforcement
  4. Extinction
  5. Train an incompatible behavior
  6. Put the behavior on cue
  7. Shape the absence
  8. Change the motivation

Number 6 is my favorite.  For example if you want to get somebody to stop reading, pay them to read; and then later, stop paying them.  It really works.

This was written by bhyde. Posted on Friday, January 8, 2010, at 10:11 am. Filed under frameworks. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

4 Comments

  1. Julian wrote:

    Could there be some way to make #6 work for terrorism?

    Friday, January 8, 2010 at 12:44 pm | Permalink
  2. mimi k wrote:

    I think you mean cue…

    Friday, January 8, 2010 at 2:05 pm | Permalink
  3. bhyde wrote:

    tee hee, fixed; Behaviors on clue are very hard to train!

    Friday, January 8, 2010 at 3:56 pm | Permalink
  4. bhyde wrote:

    Hard to train very intermittent behaviors, so the first step would be to get all the potential terrorists to engage in substantially more, then we could put that on cue, and finally we could remove the clue. At that point we would be back where we started from.

    Friday, January 8, 2010 at 5:53 pm | Permalink

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