Scent Discrimination

Work continues separately on Phase 2, discriminating the target scent and only the target scent and indicating and on Phase 3,  building strength of the alert behavior.  Building persistence into the alert behavior.  But also building fluency - she will only perform the behavior when cued.  (See more on this in Phase 3.)

In this session I review the alert behavior.  I review touching the dummy (empty) canister.  And I review touching the target canister (with scent) and using it as the cue for the alert.

But the point of this session is to begin teaching Lily to discriminate between a dummy canister which requires only a touch and the target canister (with scent) which triggers the alert behavior.  I am making the explanation very simple, clicking as soon as her nose touches the dummy and cueing the alert behavior after she touches the target (hot) canister.

Poke

Touch Dummy

Target Scent/Poke

Dummy/Target Plus Verbal Cue

Dummy Target: Touch, C/T
Scent Target: Touch, Cue Poke, C/T