🐴 The Training Scale - Shaping New Responses 🐴 Andrew and Manuela developed a shaping scale of horse training. Known as the Equitation Science Training Scale, it is a systematic progression that identifies six stages of learning to perfect each response, from a basic attempt (an approximation of the correct response) to proof (where the horse immediately responds correctly every time and in any environment). The scale is based on the principle of shaping: reinforcing successive improvements th

The training of horses is a practice that has existed for millennia, long before the mid-twentieth-century breakthrough in animal learning theory. There has been significant progress in incorporating learning theory into horse training over the past century. This progress includes understanding habituation, employing desensitization techniques, recognizing different types of cues, balancing operant and classical conditioning, and considering the impact of stress. While learning theory provides a

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