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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.






2. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Instrumental Conditioning)






3. Forces regulating behavior due to drives - needs - or desires.






4. To add to the environment.






5. Measures of observed behavior.






6. Reinforcement provided by a stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






7. The act of reinforcing exactly following the desired behavior.






8. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.






9. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






10. The frequency that behavior is performed prior to training.






11. A stimulus which has been conditioned through generalization as a predecessor to an aversive stimulus.






12. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






13. A stimulus that an animal responds to because its perception has been conditioned or learned.






14. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.






15. A procedure to reduce the intensity of a cue.






16. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)






17. A stimulus which produces a response through pairing or association.






18. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.






19. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response.






20. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.






21. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.






22. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.






23. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.






24. When a behavior is reliably performed in the presence of one stimulus - but not another.






25. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.






26. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Partial Reinforcement Maintenance)






27. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.






28. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






29. The point at which appetite is lost.






30. A stimulus which has been conditioned through generalization as a predecessor to an aversive stimulus.






31. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.






32. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.






33. Using a sound or cue to bring the animal back to station.






34. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.






35. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.






36. Describes the decreased frequency of a performance that occurs when the performance is not reinforced frequently enough.






37. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.






38. A procedure to reduce the intensity of a cue.






39. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.






40. A situation in which an organism is forced to choose on of two undesirable options.






41. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.






42. The event which increases the frequency of the behavior it follows.






43. The cessation of stimulus or response from the trainer - for some interval of time.






44. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.






45. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.






46. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response.






47. The process of conditioning an animal's frame of mind in eliciting behavioral responses.






48. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






49. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.






50. To do an operant behavior in response to a conditioned stimulus.







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