Let us Learn How Potty Train A Duck

Potty Training A Duck

In this article we are going to review five major steps to follow for successful potty training a duck.

Step 1:

Come up with a list of the ducks behaviours and the conditions behind these behaviours. There may be different lists for different ducks after all not all the ducks are the same. As soon as you make the list, confine your duck’s diet to keep it hungry for some time without causing malnourishment. Hunger is one of the motivators to make the duck seek rewards that come in form of food and therefore the duck will be willing to change its behaviours in order to be rewarded.

Step 2:

Select those behaviors from the list likely to bring the duck closer to the eventually intended one, such as taking a step toward the toilet. Then either cause the conditions likely to encourage that action and reward it or simply reward its spontaneous occurrence. Rewarding the behavior without providing a condition to induce it will require some intuition to time the reward correctly. Giving the reward even a second too late may teach the duck to associate an utterly different behavior to the reward or may leave it with no association at all. However, the duck may also simplify the behavior and this may lead to impulsive correct behaviors.

Step 3:

Give the duck larger incentives for reaching the base of the toilet and change its reward schedule from individual rewards for each step to a large reward for going to this location. According to many behaviorists, you can change from one pattern of reward to the other without transition, but the duck may temporarily stop performing the desired behavior before coming to understand the new system. From this point, begin giving the duck small rewards for behaviors likely to place the duck on top of the toilet and in the correct position to defecate or urinate.

Step 4:

Give the duck large rewards for positioning itself over the opening of the toilet seat and again change its reward schedule from a succession of individual rewards for each individual step toward that position to a larger, single reward for being there. Now wait for the duck to defecate or urinate into the toilet and then reward each event of that behavior and substitute the rewards for placing itself on the opening of the toilet with one for using it.

Step 5:

Last but not least, make your rewards for the completed behavior less frequent and ultimately, more random. A constant reward does build behavior faster than any other system, but casual rewards will set a behavior more deeply. This randomness will therefore spare you from having to reward the behavior during pressing tasks or in your absence. By the end of this process, you will have trained your duck.

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