if this were true there'd be no such thing as dyslexia nor special education. brains are living tissue and have general functions in common but ultimately each one is individualized and continues to individualize throught the life of the being.
No, not necessarily. A dyslexic still learns by forming neuron connections. What stimuli will create those neuron connections might differ, but the fact that there need to be neuron connections for learning to happen doesn’t change.
Sorry to use the gravity example again, but its like the feather and the rock. The feather is affected by wind currents, is less dense, has more possibilities for air flow etc. So as the feather falls from the sky it will look very different than the rock falling from the sky. However gravity applies to both.
The individuality comes in in HOW the objects fall, but the fact that the objects do fall towards the earth does not change.
All properly functioning organisms have to be motivated to do a behavior. The motivation may come in the way of avoiding an aversive or gaining a reward, or a combination of both, but the motivation part MUST be there or no behavior will happen. You may not be aware of what is motivating the behavior, you may misinterpret what is motivating the behavior, but you can be sure the behavior is not happening without motivation.
To me, positive reinforcement is a foundation. The dog either does well with the foundation, or you build on top of the reinforcement to help them learn. Some dogs do need corrections, yes, they do. I have witnessed it myself and no one can tell me otherwise because it's just bologna that every dog ever only needs P+ without anything else. It is just not true.
Okay... Positive reinforcement is not a foundation. It is one of four quadrants of Learning Theory. Arguably each quadrant cannot exist without another. You don’t get to make up what R+ “means†to you. It already has a scientific definition.
This is a great site that kind of breaks down the quadrants for the lay person:
http://www.wagntrain.com/OC/
I dunno, I'm not somebody who cries over the use of aversives, I just hate seeing people completely misunderstand and simultaneously dismiss positive training. It gets old.
Yeah, this. Do what you want with your dog, I won’t argue that. But I will argue incorrect information.
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, its the illusion of knowledge.†~Stephen Hawking
(And the fact that most people are far more likely to know who the Kardashians are than who Stephen Hawking is, makes me cry.)