Transcription: If you want to teach your dog, it's important to understand how they learn because it really is different from the way we do. Dogs are more basic and consistent than we are. They need predictability more than we do. A dog's responses are conditioned responses. They learn to associate things based on repeated experience. Ivan Pavlov first demonstrated this over a hundred years ago. Your goal is to get your dog to associate an unpleasant stimulus with their misbehavior. At the same time, you're providing them with an alternative behavior that gives them a positive response, or at least puts an e ...