CPDT KA COMPREHENSIVE EXAM PREP
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
STUDY RESOURCE
●● Classical Conditioning - Pavlov
Answer: 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.
●● John Watson's basic theory of behavior
Answer: Behavior is based on responding to a given stimulus
●● Learning
Answer: a change in behavior that lasts for a long time
●● Baby Albert Experiment
Answer: Dr. John Watson's Study
• Baby Albert was subjected to loud crashing noises that were associated
with a white rat (come to be known as fear conditioning)
• Baby Albert came to fear the rat without the noises
• Stimulus Generalization - baby Albert began to fear things similar to
the rat such as things with white hair
,Thought to have proved fear was taught, not innate.
●● Performance
Answer: the doing of a behavior, doesn't mean that something was
learned
●● Discriminative Stimulus
Answer: Your command
●● Temporary Criteria
Answer: the beginning steps of an exercise towards performing a
command that is new to the dog
●● Reward Based Training
Answer: uses positive reinforcement (rewards) and negative punishment
(removing something the dog likes - i.e. your attention)
●● Primary Reinforcer
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: anything that reliably predicts the chance of receiving
reinforcement - further removed than a secondary reinforcer.
●● reinforcement counterpoint
Answer: Do not feed or reward unwanted behaviors during training
●● Shaping
Answer: rewards dog for successful progressive approximations of the
permanent criteria, aka final desired behavior.
●● Luring
Answer: lead the dog into the behavior by tempting with a treat.
●● Prompting
Answer: Anything that follows the cue to help the dog meet the criteria.
, ●● Chaining
Answer: 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
Answer: No instruction, cues or input is given, except for the secondary
reinforcer (usually a clicker).
●● Modeling
Answer: Physically moving the dog into the desired criteria position. Ex:
Pushing down the butt to get to produce a sit.
●● Capturing
Answer: Giving the cue (saying "down") when the dog produces the
behavior without guidance in attempt to associate the behavior with the
cue.
●● Discrimination
Answer: in classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish
between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an
unconditioned stimulus
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
STUDY RESOURCE
●● Classical Conditioning - Pavlov
Answer: 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.
●● John Watson's basic theory of behavior
Answer: Behavior is based on responding to a given stimulus
●● Learning
Answer: a change in behavior that lasts for a long time
●● Baby Albert Experiment
Answer: Dr. John Watson's Study
• Baby Albert was subjected to loud crashing noises that were associated
with a white rat (come to be known as fear conditioning)
• Baby Albert came to fear the rat without the noises
• Stimulus Generalization - baby Albert began to fear things similar to
the rat such as things with white hair
,Thought to have proved fear was taught, not innate.
●● Performance
Answer: the doing of a behavior, doesn't mean that something was
learned
●● Discriminative Stimulus
Answer: Your command
●● Temporary Criteria
Answer: the beginning steps of an exercise towards performing a
command that is new to the dog
●● Reward Based Training
Answer: uses positive reinforcement (rewards) and negative punishment
(removing something the dog likes - i.e. your attention)
●● Primary Reinforcer
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: anything that reliably predicts the chance of receiving
reinforcement - further removed than a secondary reinforcer.
●● reinforcement counterpoint
Answer: Do not feed or reward unwanted behaviors during training
●● Shaping
Answer: rewards dog for successful progressive approximations of the
permanent criteria, aka final desired behavior.
●● Luring
Answer: lead the dog into the behavior by tempting with a treat.
●● Prompting
Answer: Anything that follows the cue to help the dog meet the criteria.
, ●● Chaining
Answer: 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
Answer: No instruction, cues or input is given, except for the secondary
reinforcer (usually a clicker).
●● Modeling
Answer: Physically moving the dog into the desired criteria position. Ex:
Pushing down the butt to get to produce a sit.
●● Capturing
Answer: Giving the cue (saying "down") when the dog produces the
behavior without guidance in attempt to associate the behavior with the
cue.
●● Discrimination
Answer: in classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish
between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an
unconditioned stimulus
