Discuss How You Would Go About Shaping a Response That an Animal Does Not Ordinarily Make. Identify the Animal and the Behaviour Clearly and Explain How You Will Go About Eliciting the Desired Response from the Animal.

Learning Theory attempts to explain how an individual or organism learns. Learning can be achieved through observation, social facilitation, formal teaching, memory, mimicry, classical conditioning and/or operant conditioning. Among these different theories of learning, classical and operant conditioning gives the most interest to animal trainers http://www.wagntrain.com/OC/.

Ivan Pavlov was known for his experiments with dogs and his classical conditioning. Pavlov had this observation that when a hungry dog who sees a bowl of food salivates. This is a natural, uncontrolled, and unlearned relationship http://www.as.wvu.edu/~sbb/comm221/chapters/pavlov.htm. Classical conditioning starts with relating two things (food and salivation), then trying to add a third thing, using a bell several times. In due course, the bell will be associated to the other two (food and salivation). From unconditioned stimulus and response, a conditioning stimulus is added to the existing relationship.

Classical Conditioning is evident to both human beings and animals. If you see cigarette commercials, cigarette commercials are transmitted with beautiful women wearing barely anything. The beautiful women will then be associated with smoking cigarettes.

For instance, if I had an Aquarium full