![]() ![]() Hiccup designs and constructs a prosthetic tail fin for Toothless. Through a modified reinforcer assessment, Hiccup also discovers that scratching Toothless behind the ears is reinforcing. During that procedure, Hiccup learns that dragons do eat herring but do not eat eel. When trying to find out what kinds of fish Toothless likes to eat, Hiccup conducts a multiple-stimulus-without-replacement preference assessment by dumping a variety of whole seafood on the sand in front of the dragon and taking note of which fish Toothless eats first and which he avoids completely. ![]() ![]() Hiccup repeats this process until he's close enough to touch the dragon. During this process, Hiccup sits near the dragon until the dragon's fear response habituates to his presence, then he moves closer until the response again habituates. Hiccup uses systematic desensitization to get Toothless to allow Hiccup to touch his face. Unbeknownst to his fellow villagers, Hiccup continues to visit Toothless. The dragon, which Hiccup dubs “Toothless,” is trapped in a steep-walled canyon because a tail injury renders him unable to fly properly. Hiccup is unable to bring himself to kill the bound and injured dragon, so he cuts it loose from the net. A warning to those who have not yet seen the movie: We reveal details of the story's plot and climax in the following analysis. He, against orders, launches a bolo net from a catapult of his own construction at one of the most feared and little-known dragons, the “Night Fury.” When Hiccup goes in search of the downed dragon the following morning, the adventure in behavioral technology begins. Despite his physical ineptitude, Hiccup desperately wants to fight dragons. Through the battle a thin, preteen boy named Hiccup bumbles toward his post at the smithy. Fire-spitting dragons attack the town as Viking warriors mount counterattacks. The film opens with a dramatic, nighttime scene of a Viking village perched on a rocky coastline. It tells the tale of how the hero changed his village's centuries-long adversarial relationship with dragons. DreamWorks' 2010 release How to Train Your Dragon is an animated coming-of-age movie. ![]()
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