Behavior Facts
The study of animal behavior is called....
Ivan Pavlov discovered this type of conditioning in the early 1900's.
What is classical conditioning.
Define classical conditioning.
What is the association of stimuli that occur at approximately the same time or in roughly the same area.
What is positive reinforcement.
Define punishment.
What is any stimulus that decreases the likelihood of a behavior being repeated.
T/F- Animal behavior is instinctive and learned.
What is True.
When your dog starts barking, you squirt the dog with water to stop the barking.
What is positive punishment.
Define reinforcement.
Your dog starts to play too roughly with his housemates. You quickly take the dog away to avoid any aggression.
What is negative punishment.
Define negative reinforcement.
What is the removal of something unpleasant that strengthens the behavior response.
There are two categories of conditioned responses (learned behavior). What are they?
What is classical and operant conditioning.
What is negative reinforcement.
Define positive reinforcement.
What is any immediate pleasant occurrence that follows a behavior.
What is classical counterconditioning.
Define positive punishment.
T/F- Punishment can always be used without causing any issues to the pet.
What is false. Misuse of punishment can often lead to aggressive behavior and is not typically recommended to use first to correct behavior.
When your dog sits on command, you give a treat after the dog sits.
What is positive reinforcement.
Define operant conditioning.
What is the association of a particular activity with a punishment or reward.
Your dog always jumps on you when you enter the door and seeks your attention. This time when you enter you ignore your dog and don't acknowledge him.
What is negative punishment.
Define operant counterconditioning.
What is an animal is trained to perform an alternate behavior in response to a stimulus.
According to Sophia Yin, what is the goal of counterconditioning?
What is to change the emotional/physiological response to a stimulus.
This conditioning is referred to as "Learning by Trial and Error" according to Sophia Yin.
What is operant conditioning.
Define classical counterconditioning.
What is a new association is classically conditioned. We train a different emotional and physiological response to a situation.
You take your dog out for a walk, and every time you see another dog your dog barks like crazy. To alter this behavior, any time you see a dog you command your dog to sit and focus on you. You dog earns treats for this new, good behavior.
What is operant counterconditioning.
Define negative punishment.
What is the removal of something pleasant.
What is False. Positive (+ adding) and negative (- taking away). These terms do not mean good or bad in the operant conditioning responses.
The dog quickly learns that if she stops pulling on the choke chain that the collar will release the tightening pressure.
What is negative reinforcement.
You only put the harness on the dog whenever you take him for a walk. Every time you get the harness out and walk to the door, the dog gets very excited.
What is classical conditioning.
Your cat jumps onto the counter and you immediately swat the cat with the newspaper to keep the cat jumping onto the counter in the future.
What is positive punishment.
Your cat eats a new canned cat food, and then immediately throws up. The next time you offer your cat the same food, the cat walks way. What is this an example of?
What is classical conditioning?