2. Settings and participants were in fact
real.
 The intervention however, was not real.
 In case you are wondering…
 The setting was simply Teddy’s natural
environment at my boyfriends house.


3. 
Teddy is a poodle that had learned on
his own to smile and had a natural taste
for beer.

4. 
There was technically no reason to
intervene, I simply studied the natural
contingencies occurring in the
environment (aka Teddy’s house)

5. Beer was a natural reinforcer for Teddy.
 Smiling was the naturally occurring
behavior.


6. Teddy has no
reinforcing taste
of beer.
Teddy smiles.
Teddy still has no
reinforcing taste
of beer.

7. For Teddy to successfully obtain beer, we
outlined 3 behaviors and chained them
together- a process called behavioral
chaining.
 Looking at the can.
 Sitting patiently.
 And finally, smiling.


9. 
Teddy would need an unconditioned
stimulus. The U.S. would be the beer itself,
but what would Teddy’s unconditioned
response be?

10. 
For ease sake, we’ll just say that his
unconditioned response was drooling. I
don’t know many dogs that don’t drool
and it’s pretty common for mammals to
salivate when in the presence of a
favorite food or drink.

11. Next, Teddy needed a conditioned
stimulus. Since beer was usually
distributed in cans at the house, a silver
beer can would be Teddy’s cue that
beer was in front of him.
 And the conditioned response? Teddy
could smile when he wanted to; now my
goal was to train him to specifically smile
for beer.


12. Ted has no beer.
Ted smiles.
Ted has beer.

15. Desired response was achieved through
intervention.
 No recycling necessary.
 The naturally reinforcing taste of beer
was sufficient for Teddy to learn.


16. If I were to recycle…
 More strict and consistent monitoring
(meaning Ted was not allowed to have
any beer unless he smiled. )
 Introduce salty snacks, making thirst his
motivating operation.
 This thirst or deprivation increases
relevant learning and performance.


18. 
In our hypothetical recycle, Teddy was
thirsty and ready to learn- easily
increasing his performance to 98.9%

19. Teddy
Me