The Science of Horse Training Part 6: Reinforcement

Contemporary Horsemanship Podcast

There are four learning quadrants. They are positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, and negative punishment. I’m going to stick with the reinforcement side for this episode. It is common for people to get confused on what positive and negative reinforcement is and the terms are used in the wrong way a lot. I want to clear up what each of these are and how they effect us and our horses in training.