Your complete resource guide for all things Equine Behaviorology!

A spiral-bound resource guide & workbook, complete with course guide, syllabus, supplemental infographics & handouts, worksheets, & exercises. 

Intended to supplement the Equine Behaviorology Online Course

This resource guide & workbook covers EQUINE BEHAVIOROLOGY - the study of equine behavior. This book follows the "central dogma" of equine behaviorology: Ethology 👉 Learning Theory 👉 Ethical Considerations 👉 Experience

🐎 Equine Ethology allows us to understand motivation & predict typical behavior
🧠 Learning Theory allows us to understand how past experiences influence future behavior
❤️ Ethical Considerations allow us to evaluate & identify the best behavior solutions
🥕 Experience allows us to develop fluidity in the application of our knowledge

Constructive Behaviorism Resources

Motivation Resources & Worksheets

🌾 Defining Stimulus, Behavior, Motivation, & Saliency
🌾 Saliency as a dynamic & subjective stimulus
🌾 Ethological needs of equines
🌾 Motivating Operations

📝 Understanding Motivation Worksheet
📝 Filled Samples of the Understanding Motivation Worksheet

Understanding Equines Resources & Worksheets

🐴 Understanding Equine Body Language
🐴 Understanding Equine Stress Zones
🐴 Equine Calming Signals & Displacement Behavior
🐴 Equine Distance-Increasing Signals & Survival Reflexes
🐴 Equine emotions defined by Affective State and Energy Level

📝 Equine Affective State Worksheet
📝 Equine Comfort Zone Worksheet

🌟 Learning Theory Overview

Respondent Learning Theory Resources

🐴 Classical Conditioning
🐴 Stimulus Stacking
🐴 Relationship Theory & Models

Operant Learning Theory Resources

🥕 Quadrant Theory
🥕 Functional Analysis

Latent Learning Theory Resources

🐎 Observational Learning
🐎 Sensitization & Desensitization
🐎 Specialization & Generalization
🐎Stimulus Control, Cue Transfer, & Reinforcement Transfer

🎁 FREE Bonus Resources: Differential Reinforcement & Behavioral Extinction

Ethical Behavior Work Resources

❤️ Humane Hierarchy
❤️ EIEIO's (evaluating training methods)
❤️ LIMA (Least Intrusive Minimally Aversive)
❤️ Defining "Force-Free"
❤️ Trauma-Informed Equestrianism

Successful Applications Resources

🌟 Successive Approximation (Shaping)
🌟 Types of Interactions
🌟 Training Session Structure

🌟 Guiding & Accepting Approximations
🌟 Tips for Efficient & Effective R+ Training

🌟 SKE Jackpots Method
🌟 Understanding "Riding the Extinction Bursts" and "Following Discretionary Effort"

🌟 Dialogues During R+ Training

Foundation Behaviors Resources

🐎 Constructive Food Handling
🐎 Establishing Bridge Signals
🐎 Establishing a Calm Default Behavior (CDB)
🐎 Establishing a Calm Attentive Behavior (CAB)
🐎 Stimulus Control with CDB & CAB
🐎 Dialogue Fluidity via Dynamic Nose Targeting
🐎 Cooperative Care on a Self-Reinforcing Station
🐎 Free-Shaping Skills via Face Targeting

This workbook includes over 25 additional exercises, plus several whole-arena setup ideas.