CDPT-KA exam 2026 with 100% correct answers

CDPT-KA

Humane Hierarchy - correct answer 1. Health, nutritional and physical environment Factors (distant

antecedents)

2. Immediate Antecedents (management)

3. positive reinforcement, classical conditioning

4. differential reinforcement of alternate behavior

5. negative punishment, negative reinforcement, or extinction

6. positive punishment (no collar corrections or alpha rolls)

Ivan Pavlov - correct answer He discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing

of a bell

conditioned response (CR) - correct answer In classical conditioning, the learned response to a

previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS)

unconditioned response - correct answer In classical conditioning, the unlearned, naturally occurring

response to the unconditioned stimulus (US), such as salivation when food is in the mouth.

Law of Temporal Contiguity - correct answer The association must be poised at the right time in order

for the learner to know bell = food

John B. Watson - correct answer Founder of behaviorism; Little Albert experiment

Edward L. Thorndike - correct answer Law of effect: strengthening/weakening of a connection

depending on consequences

B. F. Skinner - correct answer Operant conditioning (action = consequence), he developed the concept of

reinforcement.

David Premack - correct answer Premack principle: form of operant conditioning. Animals would rather

do things they enjoy vs not enjoy. Animals will do the lower probability behavior in order to be allowed

to do the higher probability behavior. (Grandma's rule/premack principle)

Classical conditioning - correct answer Learning through association: two stimuli are paired in order to

produce a new learned response.

Three stages of classical conditioning - correct answer 1. Before conditioning: US (unconditioned

stimulus) and UR (unconditioned response)

2. During conditioning: NS (neutral stimulus, one that does not naturally produce a response) + (US) = CS

(conditioned stimulus)

3. After conditioning: conditioned stimulus and response are established CR (conditioned response)

Acquisition - correct answer initial period of learning

Extinction - correct answer If the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented with our UCS (food) over

time there will be no response.

Spontaneous recovery - correct answer The return of a previously extinguished conditioned response

following a period of rest.

Classical counterconditioning - correct answer Begins with a stimulus of a weak level, gradually

increasing the strength or decreasing distance to the stimulus by pairing that stimulus with food and

working at a pace where the dog stays under threshold.

CER - correct answer new conditioned emotional response

Desensitization - correct answer Animal learns to ignore stimulus with gradual exposure.

Sensitization - correct answer With every presentation of the stimulus his response will increase.

Operant Conditioning (OC) - correct answer Learning associations between behaviors and consequences.