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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






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






5. To connect or associate oneself with.






6. An increase in frequency of a response which is followed by a positive reinforcer.






7. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Response)






8. A signal which will trigger a specific behavior or reflex as a result of a learned association.






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






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






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






12. A lack of the desired response.






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






14. Delivery of a reinforcer after a response that is incompatible or competes with a target response that is to be suppressed.






15. Decreasing the frequency of a response by the addition of an aversive stimulus.






16. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.






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






18. A reflex response elicited by a conditioned stimulus alone.






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






20. A prop which pinpoints a critical location for an animal in training.






21. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.






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






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






24. A conditioned stimulus which has the property of producing a specific behavior.






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






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






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






28. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.






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






30. Refers to the relationship between the reinforcement and the criteria of the performance.






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






32. Measures of observed behavior.






33. An inborn predisposition to behave in a specific way when appropriately stimulated.






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






35. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.






36. Any stimulus that has no effect on behavior before conditioning.






37. A change or stray from the norm in standard of response.






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






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






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






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






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






43. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






45. To connect or associate oneself with.






46. An increase in the frequency and intensity of responding at the beginning of extinction.






47. Reducing the availability of - or access to - a reinforcer.






48. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.






49. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






50. The act of reinforcing by touch.