CPDT-KA

Question 1

How important is the immediacy of punishment?

Answer 1

Very-punishment must be immediate

Question 2

How do you ensure your dog will learn the Discriminative Stimulus? Sd-R-Sr+

Answer 2

Make it salient. Dog must perceive and pay attention to it.

Example: Hot Dog

Question 3

What happens to less salient stimuli?

Answer 3

They are overshadowed.

Example: Agility Course. Dog ignores words, focused on body movements/cues

Question 4

Why is lure-reward method more effective than physically placing dogs?

Answer 4

Body posturing, touch much more salient than verbal cues- difficult to fade out all the prompts and have dog understand verbal cue.

Question 5

Does punishment teach a dog what it should do?

Answer 5

No. Punishment is more successful if you teach an alternative.

Example: sit for attention

Question 6

How can owner apply punishment without eroding relationship?

Answer 6

Remote Punishers (booby traps)
Punishment is solely activated by dogs behavior and not the owner.

Question 7

What is flooding (AKA Response Prevention)

Answer 7

An extinction procedure in which the conditioned stimulus is presented with the unconditioned stimulus.
Wait until exhausted dog can experience the scary thing (CS) without reacting then extinction can occur.
usually not ethical

Question 8

What is Generalization?

Answer 8

Dog learns to generalize across similar stimuli.
Same response is given even though Discriminative Stimulus may vary.
Example: whisper/yes/say sit
sit in park/yard/living room

Question 9

Leptospirosis Symptoms

Answer 9

fever/chills
bloody urine
diarrhea
vomiting
lethargy

Question 10

How can animals commonly get lepto?

Answer 10

drinking infected water

Question 11

What happens if lepto enters body?

Answer 11

enters blood stream and travels to different body parts to replicate damage.
Particularly likes to grow in kidneys + renal failure (stop producing urine- hemmorage into lung & intestine)

Question 12

Can dog with lepto survive with medical care?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

For behaviors a dog already knows (example: sit) what are 5 potential techniques for gaining control over response?

Answer 13

1. Catch behavior
2. Shape behavior
3. Prompt behavior (lure/reward)
4. Use combo of shaping and prompting
5. Target

Question 14

What is catching behavior?

Answer 14

Trainer waits until behavior is performed and immediately reinforces. The behavior will be offered more and more….

Question 15

What is shaping behavior?

Answer 15

Hands off approach where trainer reinforces dog for successive approximations (steps)
Great for aggressive animals!

Question 16

What is chaining?

Answer 16

Each behavior is a signal for the next behavior

Question 17

What is backward chaining?

Answer 17

The end behavior is established first because this leads directly to reinforcement. Then intro 2nd to last etc…

Example: Jump = treat
dumbbell + jump = treat
heel + dumbbell + jump = treat

Question 18

What is targeting?

Answer 18

The use of a conditioned lure (stick/lid/etc) to get a behavior to occur

Question 19

What is an unconditioned response?

Answer 19

Behavior all animals are born with (not learned)

Question 20

What is a conditioned punisher?

Answer 20

A stimulus (ah-ah) associated with an undesired consequence

Question 21

What factors affect learning?

Answer 21

1. deprivation level
2. the reward
3. context effects, jackpots + reinforcer sampling
4. novelty (animal must first notice stimulus)
5. timing

Question 22

What is adaptation?

Answer 22

adaptation does NOT involve learning. It is the physical process of tiring = inability to perceive stimulus + make response.

Question 23

What are two types of habituation?

Answer 23

1. short term (i.e. drop keys every 3 sec)

2. long term (i.e. drop keys 1x/hour)

Question 24

What is learned irrelevance?

Answer 24

dog stops attending to a stimulus because it has zero consequence
slows learning rate

Example: sit + sit + sit + sit…dog walks away

Question 25

When should you stop feeding large breed pup food?

Answer 25

when puppy has reached 80% of anticipated adult weight

Question 26

Obesity in dogs can cause _

Answer 26

1. impaired mobility
2. increased risk & severity of arthritis
3. forces heart to work harder

Heart disease, kidney disease, shortness of breath

Question 27

What is a Primary Reinforcer?

Answer 27

Something that the dog intrinsically likes (a reward)

Examples: food, walks, love, games, water

Question 28

Examples of Positive Punishment

Answer 28

Dog pees on floor, person hits dog

Adding a consequence (hitting) to make behavior less likely (peeing on floor)