Terminology Flashcards
Control
Canine’s responsiveness to verbal commands and presentations during the search.
Intent
A canine’s ability and desire to systematically hunt for a trained odor.
Alert
A change of body posture and increased respiration when the dog first encounters the odors he has been trained to detect.
Indication
A trained behavior that pinpoints source.
Tracing
Post-alert behavior displayed by the canine while following the odor to source.
Walking odor
The canine alerts and walks away.
Passive indication
Sit, down, point
Active indication
Scratch, bite
Fringe indication
The canine prematurely indicates while tracing odor.
Pinpoint
Directing the team to move to source.
Threshold problem
The canine walks odor that is not at a quantity previously experienced.
False indication
The canine displayed a change in behavior that the handler interpreted as an alert and indication in a controlled training environment where it had been previously established that no trained odors were present.
Nonproductive alert
The canine displayed an alert in an uncontrolled field environment where no tangible trained odors were present.
Scent
Gaseous, particulate, and aerosol matter emitting from a substance.
Three things that effect movement of scent
Relative temperature Obstacles Wind currents Direction Speed
Olfactory acuity
The ability to identify and discriminate different odors.
Source
The strongest concentration of trained odor available.
Modular training
Short, simple lessons which work on one facet of a finished product.
Conflict training
Constantly Changing training so that that the canine does not become patterned into an incorrect response.
