To The Rescue! K9 College/Home of Silent Training Beth Moody 2018 What is positive reinforcement training? Well, first you need to understand that semantics play a part in how trainers identify themselves nowadays. Its relatively easy if they understand that there are four quadrants of operant conditioning. These are positive reinforcement, positive punishment, negative reinforcement and negative punishment. In scientific terms, positive does not mean good and negative does not mean bad. Positive means to add something. Negative means to remove something. Since the average dog owner does not know that, semantics can make you think a trainer is doing only force free type training on your dog when in reality ...