Ken Ramirez

In this episode, part two, talking about schedules of reinforcement, we are gonna really get into breaking down the four main types of intermittent schedules that you potentially could use or are at least most common to, uh, be talked about or read in the science or literature that you might be doing some research on.

And then we're gonna kind of end the episode talking about a couple of other, what Ken Ramirez greatly called flavors of schedules of reinforcement.

So today's episode is really going to dive into the nitty-gritty of the four main types of intermittent schedules.

And if you would like some more learning on this, because I do know that schedules of reinforcement can be a little confusing, especially a couple of the schedules that aren't as practical in a professional animal care setting outside of a lab setting, a great resource...

It's one of our big tenets is we want to just give this information, and just know that, like, you can learn this, you can gain resources, but every situation is unique.

And it's sometimes really hard to give advice unless you're there in that moment.

So really like all of that, and kind of in that same vein, in the spirit of learning and talking about all the different aspects to this and potential applications, to end this episode, we're gonna discuss two other, quote-unquote, "flavors of schedules." So I've always had troubles, like, figuring out where to put these in and how to say them, but I have to say, give credit to the amazing Ken Ramirez, because in his animal training textbook, this is how he describes them, as flavors of schedules.

And I really liked it-

And now on to today's guest.

My guest today is Ken Ramirez from the Karen Pryor Academy.

Ken, thank you so much for joining me.

Thank you, Karen.

It should just be as important as cleaning up after the animals.

And this is Ken Ramirez we're talking about, right?

Yes, definitely.

Sorry.

I think.

Really, a really interesting area to go into with regards to animal training.

You know, we've been lucky enough on Zookeeping 101 to have the man himself, Ken Ramirez, come on.

He's one of the only ones to actually have two parts to his episode because it went on for so long.