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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






3. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.






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






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






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






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






15. Measures of observed behavior.






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






17. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






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






19. The initial phase of an organism's response to a novel stimulus.






20. A method used to shape organisms' behavior whereby successive approximations of the desired behavior are not reinforced.






21. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






22. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






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






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






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






27. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.






43. To add to the environment.






44. A method used to shape organisms' behavior whereby successive approximations of the desired behavior are not reinforced.






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






46. The process of stimulating an animal to touch a particular object.






47. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






48. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






50. Stimulus which elicits a reaction with no prior conditioning.