An example of this is pushing on your dog’s butt to achieve a “sit” The process is not always pleasant for the dog so the association with the training process is not pleasant, this hinders the dogs learning. Physical prompts can be very difficult to fade out of the antecedent strategy as they may elicit emotional responses that hinder the generalization of the behavior. Prompts are inappropriate when they are invasive as they interfere with the conditioning process.
Prompts are also appropriate when they can be faded easily allowing the target behavior to come under a discriminative stimulus, a cue. Prompts are appropriate when they can easily elicit simple behaviors without being invasive or aversive and when they can help prevent frustration and maintain training momentum. At the DogSmith we make use of food prompts, voice prompts, equipment prompts but we never physically manipulate a dog into position. Prompts can be food lures, voice prompts, equipment prompts and/or physical prompts where the dog is physically manipulated into a position. We have to evoke a behavior so we can reinforce it to put it under stimulus control. A prompt is an antecedent strategy used to increase the likelihood of a behavior so it can be reinforced.
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