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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






4. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






5. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






7. To automatically bring about a response.






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






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






10. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. To add to the environment.






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






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






21. When a stimulus acquires control of a response due to reinforcement in the presence of a similar - but different stimulus.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. A change in behavior due to experience.






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






31. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






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






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






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






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






37. Represents the particular occasion on which a performance will not be reinforced. (same as Delta)






38. The failure of an operant behavior caused by previous aversive consequences.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. A lack of the desired response.






48. To connect or associate oneself with.






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






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