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What is a contingency statement? Describes the realtionship between antecedents,
behaviour and consequences. If....than.....
What is a functional assessment? Is hypothesis generating.
Evaluates history, health, age, breed, nutrition, motivating factors, antecedents etc.
What stimulates behaviour, what maintains behaviour, what can we do?
What is a functional analysis? Is done to test a hypothesis.
Systematic manipulation of environmental contingencies.
Is not always safe to do.
What are setting events? Conditions in the environment that are related to the behaviour
appearing.
Can be internal (health) or external factors.
What are observable behaviours? Give an example. Behaviours that you can see. Things a
"dead dog" can't do and not labels. Example:jumping
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How do you collect a baseline data of behaviour? Observe and collect data over a set
period of time while not interfering.
Four Stages of Learning are? 1)acquisition 2)fluency 3)generalization 4)maintenance
Define lure To bait or draw in using food or object
Define shaping Series of steps to build a target behaviour
Define chain(ing) serial skill broken down into sub routines which can be seen as links of
a chain
Define mark To signify a behaviour as correct
Define capture Reward a natural occurring behaviour as correct
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Define mold(ing) Coercing physically into a desired behaviour/position
Define fade Gradual removal of a lure or prompt
Define prompt Antecedent strategy used to evoke a behaviour
Define flooding Over whelming exposure to a trigger without them being able to use fight
or flight
Define positive reinforcement and give an example Adds a pleasant stimulus to increase a
behaviour.
Treat after a sit
Define negative reinforcement Removes aversive stimulus to increase a behaviour.
Holding a dogs mouth closed until they stop barking. Includes escape and avoidance
Define positive punishment and give an example. Adds aversive stimulus to decrease a
behaviour. Leash correction.
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Define negative punishment and give an example Removes a pleasant stimulus to
decrease a behaviour. Taking a toy away when they play rough.
Escape and active avoidance are apart of what operant learning? Negative reinforcement
what is escape learning and give an example Dog is able to escape the aversive stimulus.
Escaping and shock collar stops
What is avoidance learning and give an example. Dog avoids the onset of the aversive
stimulus. Not doing a behaviour to prevent a shock from occurring.
Define extinction Lack/absence of a reinforcement following a behaviour which leads to a
decrease/disappearing of the behaviour
What is an extinction burst? A sudden increase in the rate of behavior during the early
stages of extinction.