The Odor Recognition Test (ORT) Course

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Have you trained your dog to indicate on a piece of Kong? Have you searched that stone wall over and over again? Are you ready for the next challenge? Join us in the ACT! Odor Recognition Test (ORT)! Now you can prepare your dog and yourself to do real double-blind searches with much confidence! This course will bring you to the next level of detection training! A real challenge, the perfect confidence builder!

Odor Recognition Test Course

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The Odor Recognition Test Course

1. Stepping out of your comfort zone!
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2. ORT is the stepping stone to double blind
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3. Prepare yourself for the real world
4. Humans are a source of information
5. An ORT is no guarantee for success
6. How can we set up a succesfull ORT?
7. You can set up your ORT in many shapes and forms!
1. Why is ORT training so important?
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2. What sort of ORT and why do we need it?
3. Where to start?
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4. How to solve problems?
1. Sessions and trials
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2. Collecting data
3. How to use and analyze data?
1. Why do we need a bridge signal?
2. What is a bridge signal?
3. Primary and secondary reinforcers
4. How do we use our bridge signals?
5. Conditioning a bridge
6. Bridge signal quiz
1. Definitions in the detection world
2. The definition of double blind
3. Working 'clean'?
4. Reinforcing close to the target odor / source
5. What is a 'target' odor
1. What is a Odor Delivery Device?
2. Conditioning Odor Delivery Device (ODD)
3. Loading and handling a ODD
4. How to mark ODDs?
5. 1 target position passive alert - 1 ODD
6. 2 target position passive alert - 1 ODD
7. 3 target positions passive alert - 1 ODD
8. 2 target positions passive alert - 2 ODD's
9. 3 target positions passive alert - 3 ODD's
10. Duration in alert on ODD's
11. Cleaning ODDs
12. There are NO ODD's in the operational world
1. Can we train a double blind ORT alone?
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2. Training a double blind line up alone
3. A one target odor ORT consist out of 6 trials!
4. ORT training preparation
5. The ORT training table
6. Loading ODDs on the training table
7. ORT training step 1 - Loading the line-up
8. ORT training step 2 - trial number 1!
9. ORT training step 3 means 5 more trials!
10. Charlie double blind line-up with shuffle
11. ORT training "out of the box"
12. Shuffeling ODDs to work double blind
1. Why using a line up?
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2. Prepare your ORT line-up
3. Prepare the ODDs and fill the line-up
4. A fast ORT line up
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5. Prepare the actual ORT test
6. ORT rules
7. ORT line-up trial 1
8. ORT line-up trial 2
9. ORT line-up trial 3
10. ORT line-up trial 4
11. ORT line-up trial 5
12. ORT line-up trial 6
13. Analysing the score
1. What is a FUN ORT?
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2. Fun ORT horiontal
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3. Fun ORT with changing ODDs in between two trials
4. Fun ORT with firehoses
5. Fun ORT in square
1. Why use a scent wheel in the ORT?
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2. How to use the scent wheel in the ORT?
3. ORT scent wheel rules
4. Working with a scent wheel
5. ORT scent wheel trial 1
6. ORT scent wheel trial 2
7. ORT scent wheel trial 3
8. ORT scent wheel trial 4
9. ORT scent wheel trial 5
10. ORT scent wheel trial 6
11. Analyzing the score
1. What is the ACT! ORT community?
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2. How to score your Odor Recognition Test (ORT)?
3. The ACT! ORT bronze level 20-50 points
4. The ACT! ORT silver level 60-70 points
5. The ACT! ORT gold level 80-100 points
1. How to use this chapter ' problem solving'?
2. No focusing on the target
3. Skipping target positions
4. Watching trainer instead of focus on target
5. Running too fast
6. Running too slow
7. False positive and false negatives
8. More duration in the alert
9. Barking, licking, biting or paw on target

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92 lessons
12 videos
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Odor Recognition Test Course

The Odor Recognition Test Course

Welcome in this course!

Why is an ORT so important?

Collecting data

Introducing the bridge signal

Definitions and paradigms

The Odor Delivery Device

The ACT! ORT pre-training

The ACT! ORT line up

Fun ORT's

The ACT! ORT Scent wheel

Join the ACT! community

Problem solving

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