训练并不能统一地增加狗的自我控制
Zachary A Silver1, Rebecca A Singer2, Riley Welch3
1Department of Psychology, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041, USA.
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
|February 13, 2025
概括
与普遍认为的相反,训练有素的狗不一定表现出更好的自我控制. 正式训练没有改善狗的运动抑制,一些训练有素的群体在自我控制任务中表现更差.
科学领域:
- 狗类的认知能力
- 动物行为 动物行为
- 动物训练 动物训练
背景情况:
- 狗训练师普遍声称,提高狗的自我控制是解决行为问题的关键.
- 狗的自我控制通常与正式训练有关,但经验证据有限.
- 运动抑制是自我控制的关键组成部分,需要冲动调节.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究正式的狗训练和运动抑制之间的关系,自我控制的一个方面.
- 为了确定经过广泛训练的狗是否表现出比未经训练的狗更好的自我控制.
- 探索不同的训练环境 (例如,嗅觉工作,谷仓狩猎,敏捷) 如何影响自我控制.
主要方法:
- 该研究使用了气任务,这是对狗的运动抑制和自我控制的验证措施.
- 两组物狗进行了测试:那些接受过最小的正式训练的人和那些在竞技犬类运动中接受过高水平训练的人.
- 在一个透明的圆柱体中,给狗提供食物,要求它们抑制直接接近,而不是绕道获得奖励.
主要成果:
- 与预期相反,训练有素的狗在运动抑制任务中没有超过未经训练的狗.
- 与未经训练的物狗相比,在谷仓狩猎中竞争的狗表现明显较差.
- 研究结果表明,在不同背景下,自我控制与正规培训并非均地改善.
结论:
- 正式的狗训练不一定会增强运动抑制或自我控制.
- 自制训练的有效性可能取决于背景,而不是普遍普遍的.
- 狗的自我控制似乎是一个复杂的特征,受到正式训练方案之外的因素的影响.
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