The earliest fossil evidence of domestic dog is believed to be

I useful tracking method that counts the total amount behaviour occurs from the beginning to the end is

The blue tongue chowchow origins lay as what

According to scientific studies which compares genomic analysis of 161 current dog breeds which breed is considered the oldest in the world

One of the ways in which wolves and Dog differ is

The rate of response is calculated how

An example of a breed with superior scent capabilities, and is typically good around other dogs is the

Which symptoms indicate hyperthermia

Measuring the form of the movement and the physical movements that are involved in a response is called

Which of the following is not necessarily associated with pain dogs?

An owner is discouraged over her Dog progress and training and admit she’s considering a different approach. What is the first thing the trainer should discuss with the owner

An example of a kinaesthetic learning method is

Which of the following is the most important factor in determining how a puppy brain develops

What might the Dog lowering the shoulders midsection and hindquarters to the ground indicate?

The transitional period is marked progressive neurological development, and takes place during which age frame

A tail wagging in an upright quick and stick man indicates that the dog is

Lips pulled back at the corner with cheek muscles tight may indicate that the dog is

Which of the following is the most important factor to consider when goal setting?

When an animal has learned to respond to one specific stimuli and fails to respond to similar stimuli, the handler is said to have done what

Which of the following is a factor in evaluating the Dogs current proficiency in a skill

When an animal has learned a behaviour in one situation and the behaviour carries over to a different situation than the behaviour is said to have done what

What is one behaviour that is critical to teach a new puppy before adding drop and leave it skills

A dog is offering downs when you hand signal without a lure what is the best way to add a verbal queue

The children called the dogs name all day, long without following up with anything significant reward or punishment for the dog after a time the dog stops responding to the name what type of learning has occurred in the situation

Upon your recommendation, a client is attempting to ignore her dogs barking to extinguish the behavior, but the barking is getting worse. This could be an example of.

Owner speaks the word “sit” and the dog does the sit behaviour to achieve a reward. This is an example of.

Which of the following best describes the return of a previously extinguished response

What is the most commonly recommended use of a clicker?

Technically speaking, a reinforcer is something that

According to the hierarchy of procedures for human and effective practices, what is the first thing we should look for when assessing a dog

Which method is best to use out of the following

When does the first fear imprint? Period happen

When does the second fear? Period happen?

What needs to be avoided during the fear periods?

What are the six essential classes of nutrients for dogs for optimal healthy living?

What percent of water loss can cause death for dogs?

Dietary requirements greatly depend on what in the dog

What is the minimum amount of time puppies should be eating 3 meals a day

What dietary needs do puppies have

What are the dietary needs of a senior dog?

What are allergic reaction symptoms

How often should you bathe your dog?

How often should you clean your dogs ears?

What are the potential issues that could arise if your dog’s teeth are not cleaned?

What should your dog be checked for annually?

What are your dogs core vaccinations?

When should puppies get their three core vaccinations?

How long should the average dog sleep in a 24 hour cycle?

How often do puppies need to sleep?

What is the proper amount of sleeping lying around awake and being active?

What should the amount of exercise a Dog requires be based on?

A one time event involving a particular occurrence of a behaviour is what

Refers to a set of individual responses that share common eliciting stimulus or consequential effect on the environment

A behaviour that Consciously volunteered and controlled

Marking and rewarding a behaviour as it occurs such as sitting or lying down is what

The condition stimulus returns to a neutral stimulus due to the lack of pairing is considered what

The ability to get used to and stop reacting to meaningless stimuli at full force without training or intervention is what

Physical sensory systems have been fatigued

Non-associative learning process in which repeated administration of a stimulus results in the progressive amplification of a response

A stimulus that does not elicit an emotional or learned response

A stimulus with a learned association

A measurable energy change that causes a physical reaction in the nervous system of the subject at a scale that the behaviour occurs

Unconditioned responses are what

An automatic response established by training to an ordinary, neutral stimulus

What refers to the distance over which a movement occurs either linear or angular

Responses that produce a satisfying/reinforcing affect in a particular situation become more likely to occur again in that situation and responses that produced a discomforting/ punishment effect become less likely to occur again in that situation

An antecedent that requires a person to perform an action designed to encourage behaviour that would otherwise not occur. What is this?

A consequence, reward, or punishment after a behaviour has occurred

What could be the cause of a non-criterion response?

When a behaviour has reached 80% accuracy in response to a cue in a wide variety of situations and can perform the behaviour quickly smoothly and withought hesitation what has achieved

What are fluency tactics?

Once the dog is responding, reliably and predictably to the verbal queue independently, Should you? continue rotating between the three options to maintain versatility

What is the key to maintaining fluency a cue?

Building of a behaviour through successive approximations in criteria shifts, breaking one discreet behaviour down into smaller step

It’s an approach for training a behaviour that is without prompts. It encourages decision making, and studies suggest that the act of the dog choosing the behaviour increases the strength of the behavior.

The process of adding individual discrete behaviours together to complete one more complicated behaviour that is maintained by a final reinforcement delivered at the end

When would you use backwards chaining and not forward chaining

when is the primary socialization period Also known as the sensitive period

When is the most influential timeframe for building relationships with humans?

When is the juvenile period

What dogs lineage has recently been shown to have diverted from the Greywolf some 58,000 years ago

What is considered to be the second oldest dog in the world it’s lineage tracing back to 685 BC

What dog was nearly extinct by the end of World War II, but survived Japan’s wartime, deprivations

Which dog traditionally stood out for their hunting and herding skills they usually have an equally distinctive character and can be quite independent

What dogs were trained to turn the prayer wheels in the monasteries

Based on current scientific research, Miller offers her recommendations on teaching bite inhibition referred to four Rs

What are some reasons for chewing and destructive behavior?

Most people prefer dogs with a deficit of fear, especially for service dog work, and family pets however, it is important to remember that although this level of confidence is desirable. It is a deficit. Why could it be an issue?

What are common fear reactions?

How many failures should be allowed when working with a dog who has a easily frustrated and impulsive behaviour

When interspecific aggression occurs between two dogs what is it believed to be based in?

If a behaviour can be predicted prior to its occurrence at a frequency high enough for learning to occur then what method would you choose for training?

When using a chain method, what is the process?

What training method requires no known behaviors, always moves forward and reinforces approximation to the target behaviour

What training method requires the behaviours to be known can be done forward or backwards