{"id":2418,"date":"2009-07-15T01:51:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T18:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2418"},"modified":"2009-07-15T01:51:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T18:51:07","slug":"horse-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/horse-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think how hard it would be to train a horse, even with positive reinforcement, to make the association between something that happens today and something that comes on gradually even a day later. In a punishment paradigm, delay is even more problematic than in a reinforcement paradigm. In fact, that&#8217;s why most behaviorists recommend against punitive methods. Unless the timing is immediate, the horse just seems confused by the aversive experience or makes unintended associations with intervening events.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/maestro-trk.bloodhorse.com\/trk\/click?ref=zqoqmnmb8_1-1410x379ffx111089&amp;\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think how hard it would be to train a horse, even with positive reinforcement, to make the association between something that happens today and something that comes on gradually even a day later. In a punishment paradigm, delay is even more problematic than in a reinforcement paradigm. In fact, that&#8217;s why most behaviorists recommend against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-thehorse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}