CBCC-KA CORE EXAM 2026 TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔When all reinforcement is stopped, the behavior is extinguished
✔✔Response substitution - ✔✔To replace an undesirable behavior with an acceptable
one by teaching an alternate behavior
✔✔Balanced training - ✔✔A euphemism used to describe a mix of traditional or
punishment-based training and other training techniques, such as clicker training.
Ineffective & increases behavior problems
✔✔6 reasons why not use a shock collar? - ✔✔This training tool cause pain, fear,
increased cortisol & heart rate- stress, trauma, learned helplessness or defensive
aggression
✔✔Progressive reinforcement dog training - ✔✔a pain-free, non-intimidating training
method
✔✔instrumental conditioning - ✔✔AKA- Thorndike's "Law of Effect". A type of learning
in which a behavioral response can be conditioned through reinforcement - either
punishment or rewards associated with undesirable or desirable behavior
✔✔ethology - ✔✔The scientific study of how animals behave, particularly in natural
environments.
✔✔Applied Animal Behavior - ✔✔The study of behavior in captive and domesticated
animals
✔✔CAAB - ✔✔Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist
✔✔ACVB - ✔✔American College of Veterinary Behaviorists
✔✔Tinbergen's 4 questions - ✔✔Causation, function, ontogeny, phylogeny
✔✔ontogeny - ✔✔The history of development of an individual organism during its
lifetime.
✔✔phylogeny - ✔✔Evolutionary history of a species or group of species.
✔✔4 manifestations of separation anxiety - ✔✔escape, house-soiling, vocalization,
destruction
, ✔✔5 manifestations of noise phobias - ✔✔escape, hiding, trembling, excessive
salivation, house-soiling
✔✔6 manifestations of compulsive behavior - ✔✔spinning, tail chasing, licking, flank-
sucking, barking, fly-snapping
✔✔ecology - ✔✔Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between
organisms and their environment
✔✔behavior analysis - ✔✔The area of psychology that focuses on the environmental
determinants of learning and behavior.
✔✔functional analysis - ✔✔Examination of inappropriate behavior and its antecedents
and consequences to determine one or more purposes (functions) that the behavior
might serve for the learner.
✔✔instructional theory - ✔✔A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best
teach students, especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general
approaches: cognitive and behavioral.
✔✔Ethology - ✔✔The scientific study of how animals behave, particularly in natural
environments.
✔✔ Operant conditioning - ✔✔A type of learning where the consequences that
immediately follow a behavior determine the probability of the behavior being repeated.
An example of operant conditioning in dog training is when we give a treat to a dog for
sitting. This increases the probability that the dog will do this behavior in the future.
✔✔Pavlovian (classical) conditioning - ✔✔Associative learning where the pairing of a
conditioned and unconditioned stimulus to produce a unconditioned response can lead
to a conditioned response in the presence of the unconditioned stimulus alone.
✔✔Thorndike's Law of Effect - ✔✔responses that produce a satisfying effect in a
particular situation become more likely to occur again in that situation, and responses
that produce a discomforting effect become less likely to occur again in that situation
✔✔Watson's Little Albert Experiment - ✔✔Controversial classical conditioning
experiment on an infant boy called "Little Albert." Watson was interested in examining
the effects of conditioning on the fear response in humans
✔✔B.F. Skinner - ✔✔Behaviorist that developed the theory of operant conditioning by
training pigeons and rats
✔✔Ian Dunbar - ✔✔Founder of APDT and promoted positive dog training
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔When all reinforcement is stopped, the behavior is extinguished
✔✔Response substitution - ✔✔To replace an undesirable behavior with an acceptable
one by teaching an alternate behavior
✔✔Balanced training - ✔✔A euphemism used to describe a mix of traditional or
punishment-based training and other training techniques, such as clicker training.
Ineffective & increases behavior problems
✔✔6 reasons why not use a shock collar? - ✔✔This training tool cause pain, fear,
increased cortisol & heart rate- stress, trauma, learned helplessness or defensive
aggression
✔✔Progressive reinforcement dog training - ✔✔a pain-free, non-intimidating training
method
✔✔instrumental conditioning - ✔✔AKA- Thorndike's "Law of Effect". A type of learning
in which a behavioral response can be conditioned through reinforcement - either
punishment or rewards associated with undesirable or desirable behavior
✔✔ethology - ✔✔The scientific study of how animals behave, particularly in natural
environments.
✔✔Applied Animal Behavior - ✔✔The study of behavior in captive and domesticated
animals
✔✔CAAB - ✔✔Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist
✔✔ACVB - ✔✔American College of Veterinary Behaviorists
✔✔Tinbergen's 4 questions - ✔✔Causation, function, ontogeny, phylogeny
✔✔ontogeny - ✔✔The history of development of an individual organism during its
lifetime.
✔✔phylogeny - ✔✔Evolutionary history of a species or group of species.
✔✔4 manifestations of separation anxiety - ✔✔escape, house-soiling, vocalization,
destruction
, ✔✔5 manifestations of noise phobias - ✔✔escape, hiding, trembling, excessive
salivation, house-soiling
✔✔6 manifestations of compulsive behavior - ✔✔spinning, tail chasing, licking, flank-
sucking, barking, fly-snapping
✔✔ecology - ✔✔Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between
organisms and their environment
✔✔behavior analysis - ✔✔The area of psychology that focuses on the environmental
determinants of learning and behavior.
✔✔functional analysis - ✔✔Examination of inappropriate behavior and its antecedents
and consequences to determine one or more purposes (functions) that the behavior
might serve for the learner.
✔✔instructional theory - ✔✔A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best
teach students, especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general
approaches: cognitive and behavioral.
✔✔Ethology - ✔✔The scientific study of how animals behave, particularly in natural
environments.
✔✔ Operant conditioning - ✔✔A type of learning where the consequences that
immediately follow a behavior determine the probability of the behavior being repeated.
An example of operant conditioning in dog training is when we give a treat to a dog for
sitting. This increases the probability that the dog will do this behavior in the future.
✔✔Pavlovian (classical) conditioning - ✔✔Associative learning where the pairing of a
conditioned and unconditioned stimulus to produce a unconditioned response can lead
to a conditioned response in the presence of the unconditioned stimulus alone.
✔✔Thorndike's Law of Effect - ✔✔responses that produce a satisfying effect in a
particular situation become more likely to occur again in that situation, and responses
that produce a discomforting effect become less likely to occur again in that situation
✔✔Watson's Little Albert Experiment - ✔✔Controversial classical conditioning
experiment on an infant boy called "Little Albert." Watson was interested in examining
the effects of conditioning on the fear response in humans
✔✔B.F. Skinner - ✔✔Behaviorist that developed the theory of operant conditioning by
training pigeons and rats
✔✔Ian Dunbar - ✔✔Founder of APDT and promoted positive dog training
