Not pay attention during trainning

[Cozzy]

Recently my didn't pay attention during trainning, he just didn't follow the instruction and failed to perform turn around, wave, shake and flip tricks, what he could do in a serie without any problem before, however he fetched object with out any problem.

The video was taken a few weeks ago......


Does he get bored for doing the same tricks everyday?? Should I give him more treats to reinforce him during the tranning.
Or is there any other factors that may affect the trainning.

[Michael]

It doesn't look like you are reinforcing the parrot sufficiently. First off, you won't see me do that many behaviors without getting a treat in some place. Secondly, when I am using variable ratio reinforcement, I already have a strong background of continuous reinforcement and well learned behavior at that point.

[Cozzy]

Should just start it all over again by offering him treat for every tricks, continuous reinforcement, or give him treat every 2-3 behaviors?

[Michael]

Until the behavior is being accurately performed to satisfaction on cue and is not confused with any other behavior, continuous reinforcement should be used. This way when you DON'T give a treat, the bird knows it's because it got it wrong rather than a varied ratio.

[Cozzy]

OK Thanks alot Micheal.....
I will work on fine turning single behaviour first......
I will slow the pace down......

[Cozzy]

Progress update.....
After swap back to continuous reinforcement perform much better now....
Should I add new behavior?