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Question : Every morning you take your puppy to the dog

play park. You approach from the south end of the park and meet your other dog walking friends. One morning you are in a rush and need to drive to the dog park in order to get your walk done. You park at the North end of the park and your puppy runs straight to the South end of the park to meet his playmates. What type of learning is happening?

• Applied Learning
• Latent Learning
• Motivated Learning
• Cognitive Learning
• All of the above

Correct answer: B. Latent Learning

Question : Indicate which statement is false:

• The trainer will know that learning has occurred when

behavior changes.

• The trainer will know that learning has occurred when the

dog begins to defer to the owner.

• The trainer will know that learning has occurred when the

dog responds to the owner's cues.

• None of the above.
• All of the above.

Correct answer: B. The trainer will know that learning has

occurred when the dog begins to defer to the owner.

Question : The desire to do a behavior may be contingent

upon what the dog gets from doing that behavior. If the dog is sufficiently motivated by the reward, he will be likely to do the requested behavior.. If a dog is hungry what is he most likely to be motivated by?

• A ball
• The chance to chase another dog
• Touch

• A belly rub
• Food

Correct answer: E. Food

Question : What are the four stages of learning?

• Acquisition, fluency, generalization, maintenance
• Bonding, trusting, loving, working
• Knowing, understanding, learning, playing
• Watching, mimicking, experimenting, using
• Attention, application, usefulness, working

Correct answer: A. Acquisition, fluency, generalization,

maintenance

Question : Behavior that is not learned is called:

• Interesting
• Incredible
• Innate

• Internal
• Impossible

Correct answer: C. Innate

Question : C. Lloyd Morgan wrote:

"In no case is an animal activity to be interpreted in terms of higher psychological processes, if it can be fairly interpreted in terms of processes which stand lower in the scale of psychological evolution and development."

This statement, which could be restated as "unless there is evidence to the contrary, you must account for a phenomenon

with the simplest explanation available", is referred to as:

• The principle of simplicity
• The Principle of obvious answers
• The principle of Anecdotal evidence
• The principle of Parsimony
• The principle of Patriotism

Correct answer: D. The principle of Parsimony