CPDT-KA LATEST UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Wolf - ✔✔Canis Lupis
✔✔Dog - ✔✔Canis Familiaris
✔✔Tame - ✔✔accustomed to human presence/ decreasing flight distance and
increasing tolerance to humans over one individual lifespan
✔✔Domestication - ✔✔undergone extensive behavioral & biological changes resulting
from selective breeding over course of many generations
✔✔Phylogeny - ✔✔evolutionary history of an organism
✔✔Phylogenetic Behaviors in dog - ✔✔Behaviors common to dog as a species in
general that have developed over generations (i.e. innate fear of fire and loud noises).
This type of behavior can be modified.
✔✔2 Example of innate (automatic) Phylogenetic behaviors - ✔✔1. Fear of fire
2. Nursing in puppies
✔✔Ontogenetic Behavior - ✔✔develops over lifetime of individual dog. i.e. quickly
learns to run to human for piece of food when name is called
✔✔3 motivations for canine behavior - ✔✔1. Food acquisition
2. Hazard avoidance/safety/comfort
3. Reproductive behavior
✔✔Temperament - ✔✔Nature (phylogenetic) & Nurture (environment) plus the
experiences that occur during the critical periods
✔✔Innate behavior - ✔✔automatic behavior - i.e. nursing. Dog doesn't have to learn it.
✔✔What percentage of chromosomes do dogs inherit from each parent - ✔✔Dogs
inherit half their chromosomes from father and half from the mother
✔✔Instinctive Drift (Breland Effect) - ✔✔Instincts, drives, and fixed action patterns might
come back in spite of training
✔✔Instinct/Drive - ✔✔motivation toward self-preservation, reproduction, food
acquisition, or defense
, ✔✔Critical Period where dog has greatest capacity to learn particular skills and
responses - ✔✔3 - 16 weeks of age
✔✔Engrams - ✔✔specific neural pathways in the brain that store messages regarding
movement/familiar motor actions so they become fluid
✔✔RAS - Reticular Activating System - ✔✔Attention center of brain where activities in
world outside are perceived, processed and acted upon. Also "tunes out" what isn't
important - learned irrelevance.
✔✔Jacobson's Organ - ✔✔Vomeronasal - scenting organ located in roof of mouth
✔✔At what age are dogs capable of breeding? - ✔✔as early as 6 months
✔✔How many times a year does female go into heat and for how long? - ✔✔Two times
per year for 2 days to 20 days
✔✔Limbic System and how training affects it. - ✔✔Involved with emotions such as fear.
When this is active, cerebral cortex is inhibited. We over ride it by giving dog rewards for
obeying.
✔✔Cerebral Cortex - ✔✔cognitive functions such as learning & problem solving occur in
this part of the brain.
✔✔Opposition Reflex - ✔✔Thigmotaxis - if you pull one way, the dog's natural reflex is
to pull the opposite way
✔✔Social Hierarchy - ✔✔Is flexible, affected by variables such as context and physical
state of the dog and those around him. Social relationships are established over time by
numerous interactions.
✔✔Dilated Pupils / eyes appear very black - ✔✔Eyes appear this way when dog is
fearful or defensive
✔✔Dog's lips retract vertically - only the front teeth are showing. (C shape mouth) -
✔✔The dog's mouth in an Offensive threat
✔✔Dog's lips retract horizontally - you can usually see all the teeth, even the back ones.
- ✔✔Dog's mouth when showing teeth defensively
✔✔Baseline Posture - ✔✔Normal body posture for a dog. Tail down, head up, mouth
relaxed, body not stiff.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Wolf - ✔✔Canis Lupis
✔✔Dog - ✔✔Canis Familiaris
✔✔Tame - ✔✔accustomed to human presence/ decreasing flight distance and
increasing tolerance to humans over one individual lifespan
✔✔Domestication - ✔✔undergone extensive behavioral & biological changes resulting
from selective breeding over course of many generations
✔✔Phylogeny - ✔✔evolutionary history of an organism
✔✔Phylogenetic Behaviors in dog - ✔✔Behaviors common to dog as a species in
general that have developed over generations (i.e. innate fear of fire and loud noises).
This type of behavior can be modified.
✔✔2 Example of innate (automatic) Phylogenetic behaviors - ✔✔1. Fear of fire
2. Nursing in puppies
✔✔Ontogenetic Behavior - ✔✔develops over lifetime of individual dog. i.e. quickly
learns to run to human for piece of food when name is called
✔✔3 motivations for canine behavior - ✔✔1. Food acquisition
2. Hazard avoidance/safety/comfort
3. Reproductive behavior
✔✔Temperament - ✔✔Nature (phylogenetic) & Nurture (environment) plus the
experiences that occur during the critical periods
✔✔Innate behavior - ✔✔automatic behavior - i.e. nursing. Dog doesn't have to learn it.
✔✔What percentage of chromosomes do dogs inherit from each parent - ✔✔Dogs
inherit half their chromosomes from father and half from the mother
✔✔Instinctive Drift (Breland Effect) - ✔✔Instincts, drives, and fixed action patterns might
come back in spite of training
✔✔Instinct/Drive - ✔✔motivation toward self-preservation, reproduction, food
acquisition, or defense
, ✔✔Critical Period where dog has greatest capacity to learn particular skills and
responses - ✔✔3 - 16 weeks of age
✔✔Engrams - ✔✔specific neural pathways in the brain that store messages regarding
movement/familiar motor actions so they become fluid
✔✔RAS - Reticular Activating System - ✔✔Attention center of brain where activities in
world outside are perceived, processed and acted upon. Also "tunes out" what isn't
important - learned irrelevance.
✔✔Jacobson's Organ - ✔✔Vomeronasal - scenting organ located in roof of mouth
✔✔At what age are dogs capable of breeding? - ✔✔as early as 6 months
✔✔How many times a year does female go into heat and for how long? - ✔✔Two times
per year for 2 days to 20 days
✔✔Limbic System and how training affects it. - ✔✔Involved with emotions such as fear.
When this is active, cerebral cortex is inhibited. We over ride it by giving dog rewards for
obeying.
✔✔Cerebral Cortex - ✔✔cognitive functions such as learning & problem solving occur in
this part of the brain.
✔✔Opposition Reflex - ✔✔Thigmotaxis - if you pull one way, the dog's natural reflex is
to pull the opposite way
✔✔Social Hierarchy - ✔✔Is flexible, affected by variables such as context and physical
state of the dog and those around him. Social relationships are established over time by
numerous interactions.
✔✔Dilated Pupils / eyes appear very black - ✔✔Eyes appear this way when dog is
fearful or defensive
✔✔Dog's lips retract vertically - only the front teeth are showing. (C shape mouth) -
✔✔The dog's mouth in an Offensive threat
✔✔Dog's lips retract horizontally - you can usually see all the teeth, even the back ones.
- ✔✔Dog's mouth when showing teeth defensively
✔✔Baseline Posture - ✔✔Normal body posture for a dog. Tail down, head up, mouth
relaxed, body not stiff.
