Behavior test 2

clowder

kindle

~60

venomous fangs

• 26 deciduous teeth
• 6 weeks of age

• 30 permanent teeth
• 6 months of age

between the tops of their eyes and their ears

1:1000

more than 5 times its height

sides and back of their heads that they rub on things to mark ownership

spraying concentrated urine

100-140 beats per minute

they have a not-infallable self-righting reflex allowing them to land on their feet. 

26 cycles per second

up to 4 times as much as it approaches its food bowl

a list of rule-outs (things that could be wrong with the animal)

• Subjective (what the client says)
• Objective (what you see)
• Assessment (diagnosis)
• Plan (treatment)

adding a reward.  Good consequence.  INCREASES the likelihood of a response in the future

Removing a punishment/adversive.  Removal of a bad consequence.  INCREASES the liklihood of a response in the future

Add a punishment, presentation of a bad consequence when the response is performed.  DECREASES the liklihood of the response in the future

remove something good.  Removal of a good consequence.  DECREASES the liklihood of the response in the future

when behavior gets much worse before it disappears.

when a behavior disappears due to lack of reinforcement

overexposure to phobia stimulus

• Antecedent (going on right before)
• Behavior
• Consequence

wait until the animal performs the desired activity then reward it.  Make it easy for the animal to succeed by rewarding pieces of behaviors

Trial and Error learning, instrumental learning, "shaping" behavior.  Clicker trianing and BF Skinner.  Make it easy for the animal to succeed.

• Pavlov.  Reflex--involuntary.
• An unconditioned stimulus produces a response that is reflex-like, usually involving contraction of smooth muscle or secretion of a gland. 

training animal by arranging situation so the animal can only do the right thing. 

punishment.  Stimulus that reduces the rate of behavior. 

when a behavior spontaneously returns after extinction

when operant conditioning is employed; you can reward the animal every time the behavior is performed, every ten times, every twenty... (fixed ratios). 

the simplest type of learning.  Long-term stimulus-specific waning of a responce (learning not to respond to stimuli that tend to be without significance in the life of the animal)

when two cues are too similar and dog mixes them up

Getting the same answer a different way: dolphin puts the ball through the hoop with a flipper instead of his nose. 

drive founded on the urge to satisfy hunger

drive that is the ability/desire to air and or ground scent

drive that is the urge to chase, catch, kill, carry, and guard prey

drive that is the expression of the prey drive

drive that is related to retrieving and social drives

drive that is the urge to interact socially with conspecifics.  Compliance, allelomimetic behavior, etc. 

drive for upward polarization

drive of eagerness to measure physical strength.  Pugnaciousness

drive that is the tendency to become attached to and defend a locality

drive that is the urge to defend pack members

drive to avert harm through aggressive action

drive to avert harm through avoidance behavior

drive that is the urge to engage to sexual activity

drive that is epimeletic (care-giving) and et-epimeletic (care-soliciting) behavior.  Also, nursing drive. 

Traid  about physical attributes, condition (readiness to react)

trait that is the fortitude arising only from constitutional and genetic factors.  Inversely, confidence is the fortitude arising from positive experience. 

trait that is the ability to accept negative physical or emotional sensations without being momentarily or permanently influenced adversely by them

trait that implies a low threshold for defensive and/or fighting drives, and also low thresholds in general

trait that is liveliness or alertness, and it is spoken of in terms of quantity

trait that is based both in the dogs constitution and also in the general strength of his drives, desires and urges

trait that describes the dogs higher psychological and cognitive capabilities

• birth to 12 days
• obtaining nutrition by nursing and staying warm

• 13-20 days
• Physical changes: eyes open, crawl/walk, teeth begin to erupt, tail wagging, react to sound

• 21-28 days
• Puppy can use signt and hearing.  Needs and stable environment.  Learning begins.  Learns how to be a dog. 

• 21-49 days
• Bonds with own species and other species. 
• learns species-specific behaviors.  Must stay with mother and littermates.  Learns discipline, barking, chasing, body postures, facial positions, vocalizations, submissive body posture,

• 7-12 weeks, 50-84 days
• pup has the brain waves of an adult dog.  Best time for a new home and best time to introduce him to things that will be in his life (cars, farm animals, vacuum, etc.).  Most rapid learning.  Start of easy obedience. 

• 8-11 weeks
• any painful, traumatic or frightening experience will have a more lasting impact than at any other time. 

• 13-16 weeks
• "age of cutting"--teeth and apron strings.  Testing to see who will be pack leader.  Biting=domination.  Clarify and resolve the question of leadership. 

• 4-8 months.  Tests his wings.  Run off and not come when called for a few days to several weeks. 
• Teething goes along--adult teeth are in and setting into the jaw and the puppy MUST chew. 

• 6-14 months
• May occur more than once as dog matures--with growth spurts.  Sudden reluctance to approach something new or be frightened of something or someone familiar

• 1-4 years.
• sexual maturity.  increase in aggression and renewed testing for leadership.

aggression towards one or more family members

protective of a space

• articles/items/people
• also food or resource-guarding

defending pack mates or self

overstimulated animal bites whoever comes near--doesn't even realize

defending pups

attack provoked by pain or fear (of pain)

sudden attacks completely out of nowhere

if you break up two dogs and get bit...

dog doesn't so much as get touched without working for it.  "no free lunch". 

female dogs that come from majority male litters, after spay, can develop masculine habits--not as fond of other dogs, leg-lift, marking, aggression