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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






3. A stimulus that pinpoints in time the precise moment of a desired response.






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






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






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






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






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






9. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






10. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






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






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






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






16. The point at which appetite is lost.






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






18. A single step in the reinforcement process of shaping.






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






20. A change in the organism's behavior as a result of the influence of the environment.






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






22. To add to the environment.






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






24. To connect or associate oneself with.






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






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






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






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






29. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.






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






31. A lack of the desired response.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






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






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






45. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)






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






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






48. Measures of observed behavior.






49. The act of reinforcing by touch.






50. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.