Videos about operant conditioning and using targets

The above video is a short trailer for a video about operant conditioning, that gives you an idea of the variety of things an animal (chicken, tiger, bear, dog etc.) can learn by this method. In the video you can see that they use a so called target (a stick with a ball, or other similar thing at the end, or just a piece of paper). This i very useful since you can teach the animal to touch the target with it's nose (or beak) or paw, and when you want the animal to go to a certain place you just put the target there. This can be used to for example teach your dog to walk into it's crate or up on the scale or even to teach it to turn of the light or to close the door. A target can be anything from a post-it to your own hand and the possible uses for it in teaching your dog is only limited by your own imagination. Below is a video on how the target is used to teach the dog different things, in the video you get more examples of what can be a target.