Behaviour problems quiz

Question 1

What is reverse housetraining?

Answer 1

The dog learning it is not safe to eliminate in front of the owner

Question 2

When is this presented as a problem

Answer 2

When the dog won’t “go” on a walk

Question 3

What do we have to do?

Answer 3

Teach the dog it is okay to eliminate in front of owner with plenty of R+
Tight mgmt with massive reward

Question 4

What would we do with a crate soiler?

Answer 4

Umbillical cord to owner or on lap
Small crate, scrupulously clean put in when empty

Question 5

What behv would the only intervention be normalisation?

Answer 5

Non injurious RG dog to dog

Question 6

What are the interventions with digging?

Answer 6

Mgmt
Digging put
Add enrichment - more stuff to do

Question 7

What is high intervention threshold?

Answer 7

Low intervention bias

Question 8

What is a low intervention threshold?

Answer 8

High intervention bias

Question 9

Bias are universal - this is partly why the scientific method works the way it does - True or False

Answer 9

True

Question 10

What are the highlights of scientific methods

Answer 10

They build up real knowledge

1 Controls
2 Blinds
3 Replication
4 no self policing

Question 11

Why is science important?

Answer 11

Biases get flushed out. It is a self correcting endeavour.

Question 12

What are the highlights of scientific methods

Answer 12

They build up real knowledge

1 Controls
2 Blinds
3 Replication
4 no self-policing

Question 13

The first step in a crate training plan is owner dropping treats at the back of the crate. This is an example of …

Answer 13

Passive training

Question 14

What’s the advantage of passive training

Answer 14

The owner’s time is limited, this is much cheaper and more convenient for the owner.
It’s like mgmt + !!!
No pressure for the dog :)

Question 15

Does it matter whether a puppy biting his owner is play biting, redirecting when pulled out of play or is not comfortable having his body handled?

Answer 15

Yes - the Bmod will differ and owner education will differ. We need to know if the pup is upset

Question 16

A primary goal in most Bmod is

Answer 16

To teach the dog, where, when or how he can do behaviours that fulfill basic needs

Question 17

Susan Friedman has pointed out that we own two out of three …..

Answer 17

Elements in the basic ABC unit of ABA

Question 18

What are the elements we own??

Answer 18

A & C

Question 19

Behaviour chains such as dogs that learn to bark in order to be told “quiet” in order to get a reward for stopping barking is evidence of incompetent training

A Context
B Naughty
B Good
C R+

Answer 19

False!
What can he do right now?
This could be an early criteria step in a plan that eliminates such chains.

Question 20

Why should we not worry about behv chains of Naughty –> good –> for R+??

Answer 20

Dogs often cut to the chase on their own to get to the R+:-)

Question 21

How can we get rid of “naughty” behv if a dog learns a superstitious chain to tidy it up?

Answer 21

P- BUT make sure that you attend to him when he does the good behv. Otherwise he could learn -
If you just sit you get ignored
If you jump up then sit you get a treat

This is discrimination learning

Question 22

What are differences between most DRI installations and training obedience in a non dri situation?

Answer 22

In DRI there are often specific realism distractions to add to std training plans (e.g. dogs people)

In DRI the dog already has a strategy to access R+ which may resurface if execution isn’t good enough

Question 23

How bad for the cause is it if an owner cracks midway through an attempted extinction procedure?

Answer 23

Very detrimental - it builds perseverance in the dog