Principles Of Canine Training Flashcards
What are a dog’s basic needs?
Food
Water
Elimination of waste
What does a dog naturally desire, emotionally and physically?
To eliminate the pain or discomfort it experiences
What is opposition reflex?
A natural reflex that utilizes the muscular structure and the CNS of the dog to help in various areas of training. The dog’s natural reflex is to resist pressure by moving in the opposite direction of the pressure.
What is the primary receptor of pressure in a dog?
The central nervous system (CNS)
What does proprioception enable a dog to be?
Constantly aware of his body position and movement
What is a dog‘s equilibrium?
Their sense of balance
When does learning occur?
When behavior is changed relatively permanently due to practice and environmental experiences
What is classical conditioning?
And unconditioned response to an unconditioned stimulus paired with a neutral stimulus
What is operant conditioning?
A conditioned response that must be associated (learned) with a conditioned stimulus to achieve reinforcement. In operant conditioning, the dog must learn to respond correctly to a command to receive the reward.
What is motivational training?
Training that gets a dog into Drive to do a desired task
What is drive?
Unconscious motivators behind a dog’s actions
What is a stimulus?
Anything that triggers a behavior from the dog
What is the stimulus-response theory?
A training theory that associates a stimulus with a dog’s response to that stimulus
Within the stimulus response theory a “conditioning model” is used. What do the two conditioning models look like?
S + R+ = RF+
S + R- = RF-
S - Stimulus
R - Dog’s (Positive or Negative) Response
RF - (Positive or Negative) Reinforcement
What is place association?
The natural tendency to connect a stimulus experience and the event’s location
How does behavior relate to adaptation to change?
Behavior is adaptive to changing conditions, but not all adaptations are successful
What is punishment?
The physical or mental pain applied inappropriately, at the incorrect moment, or exceeding the dogs titration level
What is positive transfer of learning?
The term used when a previously learned task is used to assist other training
What is negative transfer of learning
When earlier conditioning or learning makes later training (learning) more difficult
What is counter conditioning?
When the task that has been learned can be extinguished and replaced with a new conditioned response to the same or a similar stimulus
Explain the final response
Understand the five requirements for learning to take place, by precisely identifying the why, when, where, how, and how well the task must be completed. Reach the final response by shaping each dog’s identified consecutive behaviors by reinforcement, otherwise known as a successive approximation. (The process of getting the dog to do it).
How does successive approximation work?
By getting the dog to learn each step before proceeding to the next. Only after all the steps are taught and learned, can the dog be expected to perform the final response correctly
What is stimulus generalization?
When the dog has been trained to respond to a certain stimulus, yet a similar stimulus will illicit the same response
What is stimulus discrimination?
The ability of the dog to respond to a given stimulus correctly yet ignore a like stimulus
