CPDT-KA ACTUAL EVALUATION EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
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
2.give the behavior if not cued to do so
3.give 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
ANSWERS SURE A+
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
2.give the behavior if not cued to do so
3.give 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
