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Developmental Events Flashcards

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What is there under-attribution too?

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Changes that are likely the result of development, but that are interpreted as resulting from experience
e.g., RG, stranger fear

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What is there over-attribution to?

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The assumption that there are dog counterparts to constructs in human development such as adolescence.

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Does a fearful animal always require a dramatic explanation

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No! It’s easily installed! It COULD be from a bad experience.

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What assumption do people sometimes make about RG

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They came from a background of scarcity!
It’s a genetic program the switch is flipped at a certain age.

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What is a critical period?

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Time envelope during development where certain, key experiences are required. The brain is ripe when it’s finished - game over!

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What is the current best hypothesis about the critical period?

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Experiences are triggering/coordinating gene expression, which in turn influence brain architecture in ways that cannot be done at other times.

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What is a critical period in dog training?

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Socialisation

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What is one of the most studied critical periods?

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Development of song in sparrows

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Scenario - take San Fransico Genes (sparrows) and rear in Hong Kong (hearing Hong Kong song) age 10-50 days.

What happens if the adult lives in London as an adult? What does he sing?

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Sings Hong Kong Sparrow song

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What does the Sparrow Development Experiments show?

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The song isn’t dictated by your genes
The adult environment isn’t dictated by your genes

Song is determined by the song you hear between ages 10-50 days = critical period!

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What happens if the sparrow lives in London long enough?

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He gets a little London Vibe but still sings Hong Kong song!

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If there is an event in the critical period is it fixed or plastic?

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There is a little plasticity, it isn’t completely carved in stone.

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What is a sensitive period?

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A period where a little goes a long way (bang for buck effect)

Both a little good and a little bad go a long way!

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Why are sensitive periods important to us?

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There is a lot at stake if we miss the boat or there is a bad experience. Puppyhood is precious we need to get certain things accomplished and that he doesn’t have bad experiences.

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What is the ethology meaning of imprinting?

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Hard-wired cataloguing of features that represent a parent of mate

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What period does imprinting fall in?

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Critical period!

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What types of imprinting are there?

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Parental and sexual

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What does imprinting not mean?

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Bonding, social connection

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When is the socialisation period in dogs?

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3 weeks (21 days) - 12/18 weeks

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How do we know when the socialisation period is?

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Experiments based on extreme omission resulting in profound fear

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Why can’t we determine when the socialisation period ends?

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We cannot replicate the experiments in today’s world because it is unethical

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What is the socialisation period?

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A very sensitive, possibly critical period. we don’t have the exact answers

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What are neonatal puppies?

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v young pups - 21 days.

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Are puppies completely deaf when they are neonatal?

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No! They are closed/muffled. We also can’t read any reaction as pups don’t have the ability to show us much at this v young age.

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What do we know about the socialisation period?

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Its either a sensitive or critical period
The earlier the better!

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What was not conclusive about the extreme omission in the socialisation period

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Whether the extreme fear could be reversed with subsequent efforts

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What 4 tasks are critical in puppies - before 12 weeks

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Bite inhibition - you can’t soften up the mouth later on
Socialisation to people
Socialisation to dogs
Tolerance of novelty

28
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What are the sensitive tasks in pups? Before 12 weeks?

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Body handling
RG modification/prevention
Obedience?
Problem-solving?

29
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Does early prevention of RG issues have a positive effect later in life?

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No one knows! majority says prevention does help. you never get a false negative I,e. if a dog doesn’t RG is that because they don’t have the software or was it the prevention exercises?

30
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Which 2 tasks is JD on the fence about “essential” tasks in the socialization period?

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Obedience
Problem solving

31
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Do we want good problem solvers?

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?! the jury is out!!!

32
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Why is it difficult to find out which tasks in the sensitive period are lore and which are true?

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Ethics!

33
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What prognostic indicators are there - more difficult

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Hard mouth
Poor client compliance
Strangers
Explosive/no threat
Larger dog
Refractory - poor curve

34
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What is a prognostic indicator?

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The likelihood of a good or bad outcome in aggression and fear cases

35
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What are the prognostic indicators - less difficult

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Soft mouth
Committed/compliant client
Food guarding
Protracted warnings
Smaller dog
Plastic dog - good learning

36
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What is a bigger dog???

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> 30ibs

37
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Are the mouth and size of dog linked?

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No, these are independent. Larger dog with the same mouth as a smaller dog, the smaller dog had the better prognosis. This could be because of human perspective of a smaller dog vs a larger dog.

38
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Which 2 things on the prognosis indicators are established/influenced during the critical period of socialisation in dogs?

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Hard mouth - bit inhibition
Strangers socialisation

39
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Can we improve aggression prognosis in the critical period

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yes, we can influence and socialise to strangers and teach bite inhibition. We should highlight these in puppy classes.

40
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What should we prioritise in pups

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Bite inhibition
Socialisation to strangers

41
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What happens between ages 1 and 3 in most dogs?

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Dog tolerance to play changes
they may:

1) Play less and less overall
2) Become increasingly selective about whom they play with
3) Become less tolerant of forward behaviour in other dogs

42
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Can we normalise less tolerance of “forward” behaviour in other dogs?

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Yes!

43
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Do we want to manage or modify normal beahviour

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yes sometimes!

44
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What sort of sound shyness is most sound sensitivity?

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Primary sound sensitivity - they are sensitive to the sound itself. That sound is the aversive. it isn’t associated with something else.

45
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What is a secondary sound sensitivity

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A -CER to a certain sound because it coincided with some other event. E.g. CC to fear a sound!

46
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Why can primary sound sensitivity sometimes look like secondary sound sensitivity?

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It’s like an allergy, exposure to the allergen, or the sound, brings out the allergy or sound sensitivity.

E.g., multiple sensitization exposures which make it seem like a non-genetic origin.

It’s an example of genes interacting with the environment.

47
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Are genetic behaviours more difficult to desensitise

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No it depends on the behaviour

48
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What is a feature of a black Russian terrier?

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Slow maturing, very spooky

49
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At what age do social fears usually come on?

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between ages 1 - 3, gradually

50
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Do spooky dogs/breeds present as normal puppies?

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Yes! often they do

51
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Which type of dog should we prioritise socialisation for social fears

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Spooky dogs.

52
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Is social fears onset abrupt?

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No! It can seem abrupt because the first big-ticket display is labelled as the onset. But it will gradually come on and then plateau.

53
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Is social fear ever to do with a local event

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Yes! But we can superstitiously label it as “because of” when it’s actually genetics. We need to be careful.

54
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What is “gameness” in a dog?

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Really wants to fight. V hard to get him to stop

55
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What are the two presentations of gameness?

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Early onset
Late onset

56
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When do we see late onset in gameness

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between ages 1 - 3 regardless of socialisation efforts

57
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What do we see with early onset gameness?

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Very scrappy in litters, scars, injuries sometimes need to be separated from litter mates .

58
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What would we advise someone who wants to adopt a dog breed known to be game?

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Adopt after age 3 with no dog dog aggression history. Should be a known player.

59
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When is female housemate agg likelty to appear?

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Younger of the 2 females reaching ages 1 - 3

60
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What do you see in female housemate agg?

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Trend towards more injurious fights, often with minimal or fuzzy antecedent (trigger)

61
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What can happen in female housemate agg in regards to abi?

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Dogs who prev. had good mouths getting more and more injurious fights

62
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What are the options for female housemate agg?

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Management.

63
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Why is mgmt the option for female housemate agg?

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The stakes of injury are high
Impossible to achieve 100% with b-mod we cannot risk another fight.

Mgmt or placement of one dog is the best solution.

64
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Are female housemate agg dogs normally game?

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no! they can sometimes live with friendly males and are fine on street!

65
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Is female housemate agg common?

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no lots of female dogs live happily together

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