Labels Again. A Talk About "Learned Helplessness."
Episode description
One must be careful about using terminology we hear at seminars or read in books and apply to our training.
Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and co-host Sue McGuire love tackling these habits of trainers applying a label to something they think they are seeing, when what might be happening, is not really happening.
What? We chat about the concept of learned helplessness. We're not saying this does not exit in certain histories. Might this actually be a lack of having taught the necessary skills to dogs? Or providing time to allow a dog to show us what they know?
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