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Inside Your Dog's Mind with Victoria Stilwell by Udemy
Understanding canine behavior and how dogs think, feel and learn to make dog training easier & more effective.
Course Highlights
- Gain a thorough understanding of the canine mind and develop tailor-made training plans and communication techniques to enrich the relationship with your dog.
- Explore the different ways dogs learn (including associative and operant learning), find out how good of an imitator your dog is, and determine whether your dogs are dependent or independent learners.
- Utilize custom-built cognition games and exercises to more effectively teach and communicate your dogs.
- Learn about the difference between behaviorism and cognition, including the evolution in dog training in recent history.
- Test your dog’s intelligence and learning style.
- Find out the latest scientific research about whether or not dogs feel certain emotions including love, guilt, jealousy and joy.
- Gain a better understanding of your dog’s cognitive profile using the Five Cognitive Dimensions, including empathy, intention-reading, memory, reasoning and cunning.
- Investigate the physiology of the canine brain and understand why an awareness of how your dog’s neurotransmitters and hormones affect how you can interact more effectively.
- Explore how the evolution from wolf to dog has influenced how our modern dogs think, feel and learn.
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
4 Topics
Introduction by Victoria
Learning Goals for the Course
Explanation of Dog Activities During the Course
ACTIVITY - Dog Observation
3 Topics
What Is Cognition?
Behaviorism vs Cognition
Canine Cognitive Science
5 Topics
Wolves and Dogs
Domestication
Adaptation
Breeding
ACTIVITY - Wolf vs Dog Features Quiz
3 Topics
Biology & the Brain
Neurotransmitters
Hormones
4 Topics
How to Define Intelligence
What Intelligence Depends Upon
ACTIVITY - How Well Do Your Dogs Know Themselves?
How Do We Know What Dogs Are Thinking?
7 Topics
Types of Learning
Associative Learning
Operant Learning
ACTIVITY - Identify the Type of Learning
Imitation
Independent & Dependent Learners
The Effect of Learning on the Dog's Mind
7 Topics
The Emotional Life of Dogs
Happiness & Joy
Sadness
Guilt
ACTIVITY - Identifying 'Guilty' Body Language Signals
Jealousy
Bonding - The Biology of Love
12 Topics
Introduction to the Five Cognitive Dimensions
Intention-Reading (Communication)
Similarities Between Dogs and Children
Understanding Gaze
ACTIVITY - Left Gaze Bias Test
ACTIVITY - Understanding Human Gestures (Pointing)
ACTIVITY - Following a Pointed Foot
ACTIVITY - Following Body Orientation
Putting It All Together
Canine-to-Canine Intention-Reading
VIDEO - Analyzing Canine Intention-Reading
ACTIVITY - How Aware Is Your Dog of Your Attentional State?
3 Topics
Do Dogs Feel Empathy?
Emotional Contagion
ACTIVITY - Can Your Dog Catch Your Yawn?
6 Topics
Understanding Canine Memory
Olfactory Memory
Auditory Memory
Social Memory
Short & Long-Term Memory
ACTIVITY - Testing Your Dog's Memory
2 Topics
Canine Problem-Solving
ACTIVITY - What Kind of Problem-Solver Is Your Dog?
2 Topics
What Is Cunning?
ACTIVITY - How Cunning Is Your Dog?
1 Topic
Summary and Final Tips
Inside Your Dog's Mind with Victoria Stilwell
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