CPDT-KA LATEST EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Learning Theory - ✔✔Learn by association. An organism can experience three
outcomes/consequences for its behavior: something good, something bad, or nothing at
all
✔✔Classical Conditioning - ✔✔The learned association between two events; One event
is neutral and one event elicits an unconditioned response.
Forms a relationship between two stimuli
✔✔Operant Conditioning - ✔✔Learning by association with what happens after the
behavior.
Forms an association between a behavior and a consequence
✔✔ABC - ✔✔Antecedent
Behavior
Consequence
✔✔Reinforcement - ✔✔R
Increase Behavior
✔✔Positive - ✔✔+
Add something
✔✔Negative - ✔✔-
Take something away
✔✔Punishment - ✔✔P
Decrease Behavior
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔Extinguish. Only applies to behaviors that have been fueled with
attention, food, physical contact, freedom or other rewards
✔✔Extinction Burst - ✔✔Behavior temporarily gets worse, not better
✔✔Spontaneous Recovery - ✔✔Extinct behavior can recur in the future if the trigger in
presented again
✔✔Primary Reinforcer - ✔✔Something the dog values
Food, play, toys, etc
✔✔Secondary Reinforcer - ✔✔Event that marks the behavior; Verbal or clicker;
aka Conditioned reinforcer, bridging stimulus, bridge, promise, predictor, marker
, ✔✔Food rewards - ✔✔Activates the dog's parasympathic nervous system
✔✔Continuous Schedule of Reinforcement - ✔✔For acquisition; Reinforced for every
correct response
✔✔Variable Schedules of Reinforcement VSR - ✔✔Reward is absolutely random; No
set pattern;
Differential Reinforcement - precision
Limited Hold - duration
Jackpots - unusually large reward
✔✔Emitted Behavior - ✔✔Offered Spontaneously
✔✔Elicited Behavior - ✔✔Help performing the behavior
✔✔Physical Modeling - ✔✔Physically manipulate into position
✔✔Luring - ✔✔Lead the dog into performing behavior while tempting with reinforcer
✔✔Target Training - ✔✔Applying an object the dog is already taught to interact with
✔✔Capturing Behavior - ✔✔Observing and reinforcing a spontaneous behavior
✔✔Shaping - ✔✔Rewarding successive approximations fora desired behavior
✔✔Chaining - ✔✔Teaching smaller behaviors separately then combining them
✔✔Backward Chaining - ✔✔Same as chaining but teaching the last behavior first
✔✔Premack Principle - ✔✔A high-probability behavior, something the dog loves to do,
can be sued to reward a low-probability behavior
✔✔Cueing - ✔✔Verbal or signal; Does are visual and may respond better to signals;
Environmental cues - everyday cues that illicit behavior
✔✔Overshadowing - ✔✔The most important detail in the environment (from the dog's
point of view) can cover up other details present
✔✔Blocking - ✔✔Previously learned cue conflicts with a newly learned one
✔✔Salience - ✔✔Noticeable
✔✔Stimulus Control - ✔✔Several dimensions of how a dog responds to a cue;
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Learning Theory - ✔✔Learn by association. An organism can experience three
outcomes/consequences for its behavior: something good, something bad, or nothing at
all
✔✔Classical Conditioning - ✔✔The learned association between two events; One event
is neutral and one event elicits an unconditioned response.
Forms a relationship between two stimuli
✔✔Operant Conditioning - ✔✔Learning by association with what happens after the
behavior.
Forms an association between a behavior and a consequence
✔✔ABC - ✔✔Antecedent
Behavior
Consequence
✔✔Reinforcement - ✔✔R
Increase Behavior
✔✔Positive - ✔✔+
Add something
✔✔Negative - ✔✔-
Take something away
✔✔Punishment - ✔✔P
Decrease Behavior
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔Extinguish. Only applies to behaviors that have been fueled with
attention, food, physical contact, freedom or other rewards
✔✔Extinction Burst - ✔✔Behavior temporarily gets worse, not better
✔✔Spontaneous Recovery - ✔✔Extinct behavior can recur in the future if the trigger in
presented again
✔✔Primary Reinforcer - ✔✔Something the dog values
Food, play, toys, etc
✔✔Secondary Reinforcer - ✔✔Event that marks the behavior; Verbal or clicker;
aka Conditioned reinforcer, bridging stimulus, bridge, promise, predictor, marker
, ✔✔Food rewards - ✔✔Activates the dog's parasympathic nervous system
✔✔Continuous Schedule of Reinforcement - ✔✔For acquisition; Reinforced for every
correct response
✔✔Variable Schedules of Reinforcement VSR - ✔✔Reward is absolutely random; No
set pattern;
Differential Reinforcement - precision
Limited Hold - duration
Jackpots - unusually large reward
✔✔Emitted Behavior - ✔✔Offered Spontaneously
✔✔Elicited Behavior - ✔✔Help performing the behavior
✔✔Physical Modeling - ✔✔Physically manipulate into position
✔✔Luring - ✔✔Lead the dog into performing behavior while tempting with reinforcer
✔✔Target Training - ✔✔Applying an object the dog is already taught to interact with
✔✔Capturing Behavior - ✔✔Observing and reinforcing a spontaneous behavior
✔✔Shaping - ✔✔Rewarding successive approximations fora desired behavior
✔✔Chaining - ✔✔Teaching smaller behaviors separately then combining them
✔✔Backward Chaining - ✔✔Same as chaining but teaching the last behavior first
✔✔Premack Principle - ✔✔A high-probability behavior, something the dog loves to do,
can be sued to reward a low-probability behavior
✔✔Cueing - ✔✔Verbal or signal; Does are visual and may respond better to signals;
Environmental cues - everyday cues that illicit behavior
✔✔Overshadowing - ✔✔The most important detail in the environment (from the dog's
point of view) can cover up other details present
✔✔Blocking - ✔✔Previously learned cue conflicts with a newly learned one
✔✔Salience - ✔✔Noticeable
✔✔Stimulus Control - ✔✔Several dimensions of how a dog responds to a cue;
