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is not something your dog has been built, pre-wired,
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to find pleasurable.
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But what happens is you can do a two-step process.
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You can make "Good dog" positive
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through classical conditioning.
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You give the dog a treat and say, "Good dog."
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Now the phrase "good dog" will carry the rewarding quality.
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And you could use that rewarding quality in order to train it.
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And through this way
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behaviorists have developed token economies
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where they get nonhuman animals to do interesting things
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for seemingly arbitrary rewards like poker chips.