Cpdt-Ka Complete Guide

CPDT-KA COMPLETE GUIDE Operant Conditioning - Skinner ️learned by association -works with VOLUNTARY behaviors - applying reinforcement or punishment AFTER the behavior Creator of this method considered a "reinforcer" something that made a behavior occur more frequently. If there was no change in the behavior, it wasn't a reinforcement. Formula: Discriminative Stimulus (your command)-Response-Consequence Classical Conditioning - Pavlov ️Learned association between 2 events: 1 event is neutral and 1 event elicits an unconditioned response. Works with INVOLUNTARY/automatic behaviors (like drooling) and placing a neutral sign (like ringing a bell) BEFORE it. Learning ️a change in behavior that lasts for a long time Performance ️the doing of a behavior, doesn't mean that something was learned Discriminative Stimulus ️Your command Temporary Criteria ️the beginning steps of an exercise towards performing a command that is new to the dog Reward Based Training ️uses positive reinforcement (rewards) and negative punishment (removing something the dog likes - i.e. your attention) Primary Reinforcer ️food, water, anything dog needs for survival. Food activates parasympathetic nervous system, can calm dog, make him less fearful, & result in training process being enjoyable Secondary Reinforcer aka Conditioned Reinforcer ️Clicker, saying "yes", . . . marks a behavior as rewardable and promises reward in near future. Rewards such as tennis balls, petting, clapping, tug- dog is conditioned to like them. ALL OF THESE ARE LEARNED THROUGH CLASSICAL CONDITIONING. Tertiary Reinforcer ️cues the dog knows and enjoys doing. the doing is the reinforcer One of the most important points about reinforcement ️Do not feed or reinforce unwanted behaviors during training Shaping ️rewards dog for successive approximations of the behavior Luring ️lead the dog into the behavior by tempting with a treat Prompting ️Much like luring only the animal can't see the treat Chaining ️method of teaching a complex sequence of behaviors. each behavior signals the other behavior that eventually signals a reward. Doing this from the last step to the first step is usually the most efficient way - with the last behavior trained first, followed by a reward. Then teach the behavior that will preceed that one, etc, etc. Free Shaping ️No instruction, cues or input is given, except for the clicker. Stimulus Control ️how a dog responds to cue Under stimulus control ️when dog does not: 1. refuse to give behavior when cued to do so the behavior if not cued to do so the behavior for a different cue 4. give a different behavior on the cue Superstitious Behavior ️some irrelevant behavior that the dog performs along with the desired one thinking that it's required to earn the reward. Usually the result of an accidental reinforcement VSR ️Variable Schedules of Reinforcement - for fluency Differential Reinforcement ️A type of VSR where we look for the best examples of the behavior to reward & ignore other offers Limited Hold ️(VSR) Reward is available only for a certain length of time. It rewards the SPEED of response. Operant conditioning ️Majority of dog training is this type Habituation ️A decrease in the strength of a naturally elicited behavior that occurs through repeated presentations of the eliciting stimulus. The reason for varying rewards ️Because dogs can habituate to rewards resulting in slower, less vigorous responses Sensitization ️reaction to a stimulus becomes even stronger when the stimulus is being shown repeatedly CER Conditioned Emotional Response ️i.e. dog rides in car, hears backfire, now associates ride in car with loud scary noises and doesn't want to ride in cars. Very resistant to extinction Adaptation ️Involves the physical process of training. Sometimes confused with habituation but has nothing to do with learning. It's the tiring of sensory neurons to perceive the stimulus. Learned Irrelevance ️Pre-exposure effect. learns to ignore things that have or had no meaning to him or stops responding to a specific stimulus (cue, trigger) because it doesn't have a particular significance that is relevant to the dog. In more simple words, it's the dynamic that causes your dog to pose deaf ears to your continuous command to "sit", "no bite", or "come". Another example: Dog is crated dog in a group dog class and hears owners cuing their dogs to "come". But this dog is crated and the owner not present or is leading the class. He's basically learned to ignore a "come" command. Owner will probably need to use a new word, like "here" instead. Learned Helplessnes ️Dog gives up, shuts down because he's learned he has no control over the current adverse situation Single Event Learning ️learning that occurs when something happens suddenly, that is not related to anything else. A stimulus causes a response. (usually due to noises, movements) Compulsive Training ️uses some degree of negative reinforcement and positive punishment, prong collars, leash jerks, choke chains, praise as reward 4 Stages of Learning ️Acquisition, Fluency, Generalization, Maintenance Law of Parsimony ️Occam's Razor. unless there is evidence to the contrary, one with the fewest