How many times don’t we look at our dog and ask him what he thinks, remember the attitude you corrected the other day, or what could happen in that little head, who is unable to vocalize his feelings and emotions?The truth is that we do not know if dogs have the ability of the human being to travel mentally in time and space, through the powerful and magical “memory”.
Do you have a dog and want to know more about its psychological nature?If you can remember the moments, experiences and experiences you share with yourself and then store them in your mental safe?Keep reading this peritoAnimal article and find out if dogs have memory or not.
- We know that our dog remembers us.
- Because every time we come home after a long day at work.
- Or when we pick him up after a trip.
- He welcomes us with love and emotion.
- As if expressing the joy of coming home.
- But what about other things.
- People or moments in your own life? Because what happens is that your dog tends to forget.
- Yes.
- Your dog may not remember that walk on the beach you gave him as one of the best moments of relaxation and.
- Of course.
- He does not remember eating the delicious food he prepared for you yesterday.
However, our furry companions remember this, so we can say that dogs have memory, but their mechanism is different from that of humans, dogs can remember some things, while others come and go quickly in your head.According to studies, dogs, unlike humans, do not have a type of memory called “episodic memory”, which is responsible for absorbing, retaining and sealing episodes on our hard drive and giving us this feeling such an important experience.
Our canine friends have that kind of associative memory that, as the name suggests, allows them to associate certain things and turn them into a kind of memory.Basically, dogs are 100% encoded animals based on habits and repetition, for example your dog.You can survive a fall from the porch of your home, but soon after, you won’t want to approach this place or you’ll be afraid to do so, you won’t because you remember the fatal episode, but because you associated the place with pain and fear.The same goes for the necklace and guide you wear for walking.Your dog is delighted every time he walks it, it’s because he associates this object when he leaves the house.The good thing is that with love and training, all associations can be changed, especially negative ones.
That’s what experts say, that dogs work better with some kind of short-term memory than with long-term memory.The memory of the present is used to develop an immediate action, reaction, or behavior, which does not necessarily represent information that must be stored for a long time; However, like any other animal, you can record as many knowledge as may be necessary in the future to survive.
That’s why it’s important that if you’re going to scold or teach your dog something, do it no later than 10 or 20 seconds after you’ve made a mistake, otherwise, if it’s been 10 minutes or 3 hours, the dog may not remember and understand why it’s scolding it and therefore it’s going to be a lost battle , in this sense, rather than rebuking bad behavior, in Animal Expert we advise rewarding the good, because they are easier to identify when they are done.so, and since dogs have associative memory, your dog will link this good act with something positive (a prize, a caress, etc.) and it is very likely that you will eventually learn what is good or not.Perform this type of training, do not miss our article in which we talk about positive reinforcement in dogs.
Yes, as we mentioned in the previous points, dogs have short-term memory, but work mainly with associative memory, learn the rules of coexistence and basic training commands by associating them with words and gestures, and are able to remember our body.the smell and sound of the voice, in this way, although dogs can remember people, other animals, objects or actions through associations, have no long-term memory, as we have said, do not remember past moments or experiences, but what they felt when they associated a certain place with something they consider positive or negative.
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