Super Solly the Sniffer Dog

29 Apr 2026/Comments Off on Super Solly the Sniffer Dog/

 As a part of their Unit 3/4 psychology, students are studying behaviourist approaches to learning, which includes operant conditioning as a three-phase process (antecedent, behaviour and consequence) involving reinforcement (positive and negative).

Today they were lucky enough to have Ms Duell and her dog Solly do a demonstration that highlighted the use of operant conditioning in their training. She also talked about her work as a volunteer for the K9 unit of Australian Search and Rescue

Group of students in uniformes lined up on stairs outside a brick school building, while a man in a cap talks nearby.
Man kneeling to pet a brown dog on a leash beside a white work truck with an open side compartment in a park.
A woman in a dark t-shirt and cap stands beside a white utility vehicle on a grassy field with a brown dog lying nearby.
Group of students in navy uniforms standing in a circle on a grassy area, with a brown dog on a leash in the foreground.
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