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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






3. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






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






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






14. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






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






16. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. To automatically bring about a response.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






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






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






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






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