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E-collars should be considered ✔✔As a last resort, and part of the punishment tier of the humane hierarchy
According to the Humane hierarchy, the first step in training is to ✔✔Confirm that the dog is in good health and receiving proper nutrition
The CCPDT code of ethics requires all of the following ✔✔Refraining from use of derogatory cultural terms
Regular updating of client contact lists
Recommending other trainers with more experience
The humane hierarchy states that the following comes immediately before using positive reinforcement training to establish a new behavior ✔✔Management such as gates and crates
The following is an unacceptable aversive method which could cause your CPDT-KA certification to be revoked ✔✔Ear pinch method of dumbell retrieve
Is it acceptable to receive a percentage of income from referrals to another professional ✔✔No
Telling a new client about the harsh training methods of another dog trainer is considered ✔✔Defamation of a colleague and unethical
Once you have become a CPDT-KA, you must recertification by ✔✔Earning 36 CEUS every 3 years.
If a client with a disability wants to attend your group class you should ✔✔Help the client by providing a reasonable accommodation to mediate her disability
To protect your clients identity at all times you should never ✔✔Keep registration forms where class members can see them
True or False. It is permissible to bring noted into the CPDT-KA exam testing center. ✔✔False
True or False. It is permissible to turn clients away if you don't like their lifestyle choices or breed of dog. ✔✔False
Tertiary reinforcer ✔✔A behavior or stimulus that has been paired with a secondary reinforcer
Stimulus ✔✔Something that elicits a behavior
Response ✔✔The behavior elicited by a stimulus
Antecedent ✔✔Something that comes before a behavior. Often a stimulus or a cue.
Behavior ✔✔Something that the learner does in response to the antecedent.
Consequence ✔✔What occurs in response to the behavior
Unconditioned ✔✔A stimulus or response that has meaning but is not learned. Often initiates a reflex
Conditioned ✔✔A stimulus, response etc. that has been taught to have meaning to the learner.
Neutral ✔✔A stimulus that has no learned or reflexive meaning to the learner
Counter conditioned ✔✔A stimulus response that has a new redefined meaning than previously learned.
Desensitization ✔✔Presentation of low levels of a conditioned stimulus. The learner can avoid responding
Habituation ✔✔Allowing dog to get used to it
Overlearning ✔✔Making the lesson so strong in the learners mind that they know it in all environment
Eustress ✔✔Good stress. A prime internal state for learning
Distress ✔✔Bad stress
Elicited behavior ✔✔Involuntary reflex or emotion-uncontrolled
Operant learning ✔✔Learning that occurs as the learner operates within their environment and they respond to their consequences
If a client complains that her dog barks at people passing by the front window, the first thing you should recommend is ✔✔Cover the windows with curtains, blinds or privacy film
A dog pulling against a halter moves back toward the owner to remove pressure on the nose. The handler then gives the dog a treat. This is ✔✔Negative reinforcement followed by positive reinforcement
A reflex is an unlearned, involuntary behavior. In classical conditioning it is called a ✔✔Unconditioned response
Variable reinforcement ✔✔Reinforcement after some number of correct responses
In classical counter-conditioning, the correct order of presentation is ✔✔Conditioned stimulus followed by the unconditioned stimulus
Which of the following best describes food, water, and sex ✔✔Primary reinforcers
True or False
Classical learning can change visceral responses including cellular responses ✔✔True
Though used as a secondary reinforcer in operant learning, the clicker is initially classically conditioned. Before being paired with food, the clicker is a ✔✔Neutral stimulus
A clients dog barks and runs the fence with the neighbors dog. You recommend reinforcing breaks in the barking with a treat and a release to "go bark" This is called ✔✔Premack principle
The premack principle states ✔✔More probable behaviors will reinforce less probable behavior.
A dog is offering a down when you hand signal without a lure. What is the best way to add a verbal cue? ✔✔Verbal, signal, response, (down) reward
Immediately after reinforcement, learners on a fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement tend to ✔✔Pause
A dog barks at skateboards. The trainer let's the dog see a skateboard that is not moving and immediately presents food. She then removes the skateboard and immediately stops giving food. This is an example of ✔✔Desensitization and counter conditioning
A dog approaches a garbage can. It blows over in the wind and the dog runs away. The dog no longer approaches the garbage can. What happened? ✔✔The dog was positively punished for approaching garbage cans
While working on counter conditioning to a stimulus, it is possible for the unconditioned stimulus (the food ) to become "poisoned".
This means ✔✔The food begins to predict the conditioned stimulus
Teaching a dog to go to mat instead of barking at the doorbell is an example of ✔✔Differential reinforcement of an incompatible behavior
Whether or not something is a reinforcer or a punisher is determined by ✔✔The learners opinion
You are teaching a clients dog to go to crate. Each time the dog steps inside the crate, you mark the behavior and toss a treat in the crate. Over time, the dog is going to the crate more and more.
You treat each time. Finally you are able to treat the dog after he is fully inside the crate and close the door. This is an example of ✔✔Shaping using positive reinforcement
A dog moves in with a new family and for the first week barks at the mailman. The second week the dog just looks up and notices the mailman. The third week the dog sleeps through the mail man's visit. This is an example of ✔✔Habituation
Placing the dog physically on the dogwalk in agility is an example of ✔✔Prompting
A normal body temperature for a dog would be ✔✔ 102
When a client tells you they want to stop their dog from barking hysterically at the mailman every day, you suggest they pull their curtains around the time the mailman shows up. This is ✔✔Management
Megan lives near a fire station and whenever the siren goes off her dog ginger howls and lunges at the front door. She continues to do this until the noise stops. This is ✔✔R-
Cpdt endorses the American veterinary society of animal behavior's recommendation not to use shock prong or choke collars as a first line of training for dogs because ✔✔People and dogs could get hurt. And it can prevent the dog from learning.
Typically when a dog hears a clicker for the very first time, how will he respond? ✔✔He will typically not respond at all.
To teach her puppy to lie down, she watches the puppy throughout the day then clicks and treats when the puppy lies down. This is called ✔✔Capturing
Whenever puppy pees in the house, owner yells NO in a loud voice, then quickly takes him outside and gives him a treat for peeing more. This is ✔✔Positive punishment followed by positive reinforcement
This indicates that a primary reinforcer has been earned ✔✔Secondary reinforcer
Owner has taught dog to sit using a hand signal. Now she wants him to sit using a verbal cue so she says "sit" while she gives him the hand cue. This will not teach him to sit on the verbal cue alone because of ✔✔Salience
Dogs that have round eyes that blink are generally ✔✔Relaxed
In dogs previous home, he was hit with an umbrella for peeing on the floor. Now when he sees an umbrella, he lives his lips and his ear go back. This is ✔✔Classical conditioning
When on leash at the park dog likes to jump on people. Owner wants to discourage this so she walks between dog and people so she is unable to jump. This is ✔✔Management
The bulk of the questions on the CPDT -KA will be about ✔✔Instruction and learning theory
Possible substitutions for a clicker when training a deaf dog might include ✔✔Flashlight, thumbs up , gentle tap on the dogs nose, foot stomp or other vibration.
If you need to reschedule your exam date during the 2-week testing period you should : ✔✔Call psi at least 48 hours in before your scheduled testing date and ask to change.
If you're holding a group class that's scheduled to begin at 9 am and only 3 students arrive on time, you should ✔✔Start the class anyway
trainer should try is ✔✔Place the dog and owner behind a visual barrier and see if the dog becomes more comfortable.
If an instructor must keep a tight schedule, which of the following is the best way to handle a client who handles a relevant question that will require an extensive answer ✔✔Politely explain that there is not enough time but that you will follow up with her at a layer time
It is now believed that ancient candids became domestic dogs as they scavenged closer to human settlements more successfully. This process is known as ✔✔Self-domestication
It is believed that ancient wolves first began to evolve into proto dogs around ✔✔20,000 - 30000 years ago
The Balyeave fox experiment showed that selecting for tameness also created changes in ✔✔Fox appearances and behavior
True or False: The terms adolescent and juvenile are interchangeable ✔✔False
One of the ways in which wolves and dogs differ is ✔✔Dogs play throughout their lives
The earliest fossil evidence of the domestic dog is believed to be ✔✔12000-14000 years old
An example of a breed with superior scenting ability and typically good around other dogs is A. Great Dane B. Kuvasz C. Foxhound or D. Pomeranian ✔✔C. Foxhound
A sudden behavior change in an adult dog can indicate ✔✔A change in the dogs environment
The social structure of wolves and dogs was once thought to be based on power struggles for dominance. It is now known that their structure is ✔✔More similar to human relationship struggles
True or False: No new breeds are currently being developed ✔✔False
Due to the domestication process, dogs have developed which ability? ✔✔The ability to bond with a different species.
Puppies should leave the breeder to live with their new human family at the beginning of the 2nd socialization stage. This begins at ✔✔8 weeks
Puppies eyes and ears are closed when they are first born. During which stage of development do eyes and ears open ✔✔Transitional
True or False
The concept of dominance does not actually occur in domestic dogs ✔✔False
The heaviest and largest breeds are usually classified as types of
Spitz dogs
Hounds
Mastiffs or
Livestock guard ✔✔Mastiffs
Common causes of developmental behavioral difficulties can include
Sleep deprivation
Too much maternal attention
Early deworming
Isolation during the first socialization period ✔✔Isolation during the first socialization period
True or False
Wolves usually live in unrelated packs so dominance hierarchy is very important to them ✔✔False
Sexual behavior usually develop during which developmental stage ✔✔Juvenile
During which stage of development does the first fear impact period usually occur ✔✔2nd socialization
One of the many differences between dogs and wolves is that dogs ✔✔Exhibit more conspecific aggression
A conditioned response is one that is
Learned by association
Taught with a clicker
Reflexive
Purely emotional ✔✔Learned by association
