Stage 5 Exam

Placing a mat on the floor to encourage a dog to lie down on cue is?

An Antecedent arrangement

Shaping rewards a dog after completing individual steps when learning a new behaviour

False

Food luring is always used to train to behaviour

False

Verbal cues should be short, no more than one or two words

True

You should only use intermittent reinforcement during the maintenance learning stage

False, fluency most

Proper canine position in traditional obedience involves?

Holding a leash in your dominant hand and placing the dog on your left side

Training lessons should be?

15 to 20 minutes long

Training sessions should be?

1-2 minutes long

New behaviours are captured lured, and or shaped in the fluency stage

False, acquisition mostly

The primary focus of the maintenance stage of learning is…

Along with ongoing practice, using the behaviour in every day situations

A dog needs to be successful at performing a behaviour in each stage of learning at least 75% of the time to move onto the next training level or behaviour

False, 90%

The fluency stage of learning focuses on precision, cue response and completion speed

True

During the generalization stage of learning, you work on…

Adding variables, such as duration, distance, and distraction to the behaviour

When working on fluency for the leave it queue, you only need to focus on the speed aspect?

False,

Which of the following cues can also be used as an unconditioned reinforcer with dogs who enjoy play?

Fetch

The food lure leads a dog into a behavior. A food reward is the consequence of performing the behaviour correctly.

True

A dog who has issues making eye contact may require desensitization or counterconditioning to make interactions with strangers, less stressful

True

Getting a dog to make eye contact is not an easy behaviour to capture

False

When teaching any behavior, you should not move onto the next level of training or a new exercise until?

The dog is successfully performing the behaviour 90% of the time

During loosely shocking, it is the dogs job, not the owners, to keep the leash loose

True

When generalizing the sick queue, you should work on at least two aspects of the behaviour at a time

False

If a dog jumps up or lunges toward the food lure during training, you should?

Use a different type of lure, make sure the lure is not held too high or reduce the number of distractions in the training area

When capturing your behavior, mark the behaviour one second after it takes place

False, as soon as

When training a dog to complete a behaviour chain, give the dog the cue to perform the next behaviour while they are performing the proceeding behaviour

True