Positive Reinforcement | Schedules of Reinforcement | Bird Training for Beginners #3
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- In this video we are going over positive reinforcement in more detail, more specifically, schedules of reinforcement. If you want to know how to use positive reinforcement to better train your birds then this is the video for you. But what are schedules of reinforcement? Positive reinforcement can be broken down to 2 main types, continuous reinforcement schedules and partial reinforcement schedules. Partial reinforcement has 4 types of schedule including fixed ratio reinforcement schedule, fixed interval reinforcement schedule, variable ratio reinforcement schedule, and variable interval reinforcement schedule. We also take a brief look at reinforcement magnitudes and jackpot reinforcement.
00:00 Intro
00:52 Continuous Reinforcement Schedules
03:30 Magnitudes of Reinforcement
05:04 Partial Reinforcement Schedules
09:23 Variable Reinforcement Schedules
13:17 Conclusion
Great work, keep teaching us !!!!
Thank you 😁
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An excellent presentation
Thank you 😁
Nice video, Dan! I appreciate the explanations, demonstrations, and examples. You know what else I'd love to see? A reel of outtakes!! 😅 Even if you need to bleep out some bits for family viewing, I would love to see that!
Hmmm perhaps I may put something together as a Christmas special
I like the casino analogy. Sounds pretty similar to the hunt success ratio most predators, especially raptors, have in the wild. Most hunts are unsuccessful but the hunt goes on because starvation is much worse. Makes me think that this form of training, and manipulation in casinos, actually taps into our shared primal instincts as hunters. Maybe the birds don't see it as training but instead as controlled hunting? Maybe this training strategy can give greater credit to more natural forms of training like with rabbits, squirrels, and homing pigeons. As well as injured prey while the bird is first learning and has to hunt down and catch the injured prey.
I'm a falconer and raptor educator. I've taken on birds that have had multiple owners/history. I have high hopes with this training for my new (older) education GHO. My American Kestrel uses the variable reinforcement recall work well.
Very nice video, with lots of food for thought to make the training sessions more effective. Regarding the workplace analogy - I’d say the continuous reinforcement is the salary (which can lose its appeal over time, which is why employers throw in extra perks like a company car). The "party and cake" every day for showing up for work sounds more like "continuous jackpot". Your casino analogy sounds great - I'd love to come up with a way to learn from the people who use the addictive nature of gambling for personal profit, and turn it into effective training methods for our birds.
I don’t think there could be such a thing as a continuous jackpot, if that’s the magnitude of the continuous reinforcer then the jackpot would have to be something even bigger and better, it’s not always easy coming up with human analogies and they sometimes start to blur the lines, like is a salary a fixed interval because it comes every month or is it fixed ratio because it comes on every 30th day you’ve worked for example. I would like to know how much of this stuff casino owners know about, I recon they must be pretty clued up on psychology
Hi Dan, hope your well, brilliant video as always! All the birds you used in todays video have to be by far my favourites, (well, with the exception of Lincoln😂) peggy especially as the harris hawk was😂 the species of bird that got me hooked on falconry ❤have a brilliant night 🌙 x
I am well thank you, hope you are too, Lincoln should be featuring a lot more in the new year!
Great video! This taught me a lot! I love the examples! It was so easy to follow! I have a question. Which reinforcement do you use? Thank you!
It’s different for each bird, with the birds I fly to a perch of a glove I try to use a Variable Ratio as it tends to get the best results but with the falcons flying to a swing lure that’s not really possible so I use Variable Interval with them.
Sorry if I'm bothering you but I had another question. Can you alternate between both of the variables? I just think it won't make any sense using variable interval when you are training him to fly to the fist because it has nothing to do with "time".
Yes I don’t see why not
Thank you. I look forward to part 4.
Please,you can do how to train white eye bazzard video.❤️
Is there a reason why when you fly Sway you feed it with your right (ungloved) hand yet when you fly Peggy you put the food onto the gloved hand? Hopefully that makes sense and sorry if its a stupid question. Thanks for the video as well
Peggy is a parent reared and has in the past gone for my hands with her feet so she has always been trained with the food on the glove to keep my bare hands away from her feet. With Sway being an owl I imprinted I’ve always fed him to his beak from being 5 days old up to now, also owls eyes are quite different to ours and while he has incredible vision for long distances, he wouldn’t really be able to see the food very well on the glove so he would have to stand and feel around for it so it’s just easier for him if I pass it straight to his beak, I do the same with my Barn owl. And don’t worry, it’s not a stupid question!
@@MercerFalconry ok thank you!
Well the info was great but the hawks flying to your glove were training you because they picked all of the fixed ratios etc. So the bird picked when to fly to the glove and you immediately raised your glove I am not a Falconer but I know this mistake. I hope that you will get it better ! Ps I very like your Harris Hawk Peggy I like how you trained her!
What you are not seeing is the signals I am giving below the camera of me getting food out and placing it on the glove with a hand signal so actually she is taking off and flying as soon as I give a signal before the glove is even up in the air. I could try to “get it better” for you but I don’t think you can get much better than an immediate response to a subtle, below the camera signal, while also giving a talk to a camera
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