What Kind Of Dog Trainer Are You:
How Your Personality
Affects Your Dog...
Dog training is all about psychology.
Rewarding desired behaviour,
discouraging undesired behaviour. It is
one of the best examples of how basic
psychology can be put into practice. But it
isn’t just the psychology of your dog that
infl uences his training and behaviour, it is
your psychology too.

A recent study revealed that a person’s moral
compass, that is to say, their value system
which dictates their decision making, will
have a large infl uence over how successful or
unsuccessful they will be at training dogs.

The decision making process that governs us
during the ongoing process of dog training is
infl uenced by many external factors, but it is
also heavily infl uenced by the trainer’s moral
Here we see a
development. Is it fair to say that a person’s
dog trainer and
likelihood of being a successful dog trainer
psychologist
depends on their morals? Or can people with
demonstrate the
varying morals be just as effective?
importance of
understanding
It is possible that the reason people with
psychology when
certain moral systems are better dog
dog training. She
trainers than others may be because they
employs operant
better understand the mindset of a dog.
conditioning.
For example, a person who believes that
punishment of undesirable behaviour is more
effective than rewarding desirable behaviour
may encounter more resistance during dog
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There are many theories and practices
that are endemic throughout dog training,
such as those related to behaviour and
psychology. These theories are more easily
understood by certain psychological ‘types’.
Watch this video to see how a person who
believes in patience trains their dog.

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