Detector Dog Terms of the Day: EXTINCTION TRAINING (ELIMINATION of INCORRECT RESPONSES) Extinction training is training to remove unwanted behavior or incorrect responses. Before an incorrect response can be eliminated, its cause must first be identified. Then the reinforcer that is maintaining the unwanted behavior must be removed. Once these are identified, extinction training can begin. When conducting extinction training, handlers, trainers and supervisors must beware of what may occur during extinction training. Extinction Burst Extinction burst occurs when a sudden increase in the incorrect response occurs. This occurrence is common. Many times those not familiar with this behavior will stop effective extinction training believing that the process is making the behavior worse. What actually happens is that the problem temporarily gets worse before it gets better. Extinction Aggression Aggression associated with the extinction process is extinction aggression. During the extinction period, the reinforcer that maintains the behavior are withheld causing frustration. Spontaneous Recovery Spontaneous recovery is the reoccurrence of a behavior that has already undergone extinction training. Once extinction training has been completed, the dog should receive intermittent extinction training to help prevent the incorrect response from reoccurring. Stimulus Discrimination Discrimination of one stimulus in face of all other stimuli is stimulus discrimination. To obtain discrimination, extinction training must be conducted. During detection training it is important that the dog does not generalize to other similar odors. Extinction Latent Preventing a response in the presence of a triggering stimulus or stimuli. For example, placing an odor that is known to induce an incorrect response in detector dogs and preventing the dog from responding to the odor. This form of extinction is very effective. It is for this reason that handlers must never pull or force their dog from investigating odor unless the handler knows for a fact that the target odor is not present
Posted on: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:48:33 +0000
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