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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. To add to the environment.






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






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






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






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






6. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






7. To connect or associate oneself with.






8. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






9. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Measures of observed behavior.






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






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






30. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






31. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






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






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






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






35. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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