Training

Question 1

What are the 4 quadrants of operant conditioning?

Answer 1

Positive punishment
Positive reinforcement
Negative punishment
Negative reinforcement

Question 2

What is an example
Of a tangible reward?

Answer 2

Ball, food, Tug, anything physical

Question 3

You get into a car and sit down. The seatbelt light is coming on in the car is making an annoying, audible, dinging tone. You must put on the seatbelt to turn this off. What type of operant conditioning is this?

Answer 3

Negative reinforcement

Question 4

Your dog is given a correction on the pinch collar for ignoring a command. What type of operant conditioning is this?

Answer 4

Positive punishment

Question 5

Your dog does not conduct a bite and hold on a bite pillow. The pillow is lost and the Decoy runs away with it. The dog gives Chase to the pillow but the reward is taken away and the dog is put back in the vehicle. What type of operant conditioning is this?

Answer 5

Negative punishment

Question 6

You are conducting an obedience session. Your dog responds well to a voice command in perfect position. You reward him with a tug. What type of operant conditioning is this?

Answer 6

Positive reinforcement

Question 7

variable reward system

Answer 7

A reward or rewards delivered intermittently to keep the canine repeating a desired behavior to increase drive and attention in hopes, for another reward.

Question 8

marker training

Answer 8

To capture and reward a desired behavior, offered by the dog by means of a verbal cue, clicker/noise or tangible item

Question 9

Prey drive

Answer 9

A dog’s instinctive compulsion to capture and grasp prey typically visual, and can include both living things or items, still or moving that have become prey in the dogs mind.

Question 10

Hunt Drive

Answer 10

A dogs compulsion to seek out and search for a prey item. This is typically done with all of the dogs senses. The difference between prey, and Hunt, is Hunt is a search for the item and prey has already been found.

Question 11

Classical conditioning

Answer 11

And involuntary response to a stimulus. Operant conditioning is a learned behavior.

Question 12

Avoidance training

Answer 12

A learned behavior for a canine to avoid an item or exercise in hopes that an unpleasant experience does not reoccur

Question 13

How would you fix or train a dog that is having trouble leaving a track of human odor for animal odor?

Answer 13

Exposing the dog outside of tracking to animal odor to create avoidance. Giving the dog a physical correction when he leaves human odor.

Question 14

Properly spell, the three most common breeds of police K9 to used today.

Answer 14

German Shepherd
Belgian Malinois
Dutch shepherd

Question 15

How many teeth does a canine have?

Answer 15

42

Question 16

It is the ______ of your voice, not the volume, that controls the dog

Answer 16

Tone

Question 17

A canine handler’s most important responsibility is what

Answer 17

To promote and perpetuate the canine image

Question 18

What is the foundation upon which all training is based?

Answer 18

Obedience

Question 19

Describe defensive drive

Answer 19

This drive is to avert harm through aggressive action or escaping action. Defensive behavior is to various degrees based on worry or fear, and triggered when the animal perceives a threat. The dogs goal is for the threat to go away..

Question 20

One very important part of defensive drive training is not to push the dog into ________ also known as flight behavior

Answer 20

Avoidance

Question 21

Define successive approximation

Answer 21

Reinforcement for behavioral changes that are incremental steps towards the desired behavior

Question 22

How many skin cells do humans shed per minute

Answer 22

40,000

Question 23

True or false the sensitivity comparison of olfactory sense for the dog as compared to humans is about 10 to 100,000,000 times greater?

Answer 23

True

Question 24

You and your canine partner were pursuing a track, but have lost it. In order, give the ways to relocate the track.

Answer 24

1. Circle check
2. Restart
3. Cap

Question 25

What are the two most important factors that determine how you perform a cap?

Answer 25

Direction of travel and direction of the wind

Question 26

Describe, a void as it relates to canine

Answer 26

Three dimensional space is located on the downwind side of an object which is void of the main prevailing wind stream, and is composed of its own particular wind flow.

Question 27

Dogs have ____ million olfactory cells. Humans have ____ million olfactory

Answer 27

220, 5-10

Question 28

Where does an area search begin?

Answer 28

The furthest point, downwind, outside of the perimeter

Question 29

What are the four elements included in a warning given by a police dog handler prior to deployment?

Answer 29

1. Identification as a police officer
2. Advisement the culprit is under arrest
3. To surrender.
4. Intention of the use of canine if they fail to surrender.

Question 30

Define back chaining

Answer 30

The order of behaviors is reversed. You start by training the final piece of the behavior first and continue working backwards.

Question 31

You have an E collar on your dog. You apply low stim as the dog is out of position. Once the dog is in the correct position, the stim is turned off. What type of operant conditioning is this?

Answer 31

Negative Reinforcement