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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.
Deprivation
Affiliation
Reward
Emit
2. Using a sound or cue to bring the animal back to station.
Recall
Successive Approximation
Attitude Shaping
Adverse
3. An inborn predisposition to behave in a specific way when appropriately stimulated.
Instinct
Refusal
Bridge
Delta
4. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.
Stimulus Delta
Satiation
Selective Reinforcement
Latency
5. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.
Conditioned Reinforcer
Cue
Target (verb)
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
6. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Differential Reinforcement
Successive Approximation
Fading
7. A reflex response elicited by a conditioned stimulus alone.
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Conditioned Response
Chaining
Extinction Burst
8. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Primary Reinforcement
9. To remove from the environment.
Negative
Station
Approximation
Latency
10. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Reflex)
Positive Transfer
Unconditioned Response
Instinct
Generalization
11. To automatically bring about a response.
Secondary Reinforcer
Operant or Operant Behavior
Proactive Inhibition
Elicit
12. The process by which a young animal forms a lasting attachment to and preference for some object - usually a parent.
Method of Approximation
Prompt
Imprinting
Deprivation
13. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Intermittent Reinforcement)
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Elicit
Motivation
14. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Prompt
Reinforcer
Generalization
15. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Motivation
Stimulus
Emit
16. Forces regulating behavior due to drives - needs - or desires.
Shaping
Incompatible Behavior
Motivation
Refusal
17. To automatically bring about a response.
Elicit
Chaining
Intermittent Reinforcement
Primary
18. When a behavior is reliably performed in the presence of one stimulus - but not another.
Extinction Burst
Recall
Incompatible Behavior
Stimulus Control
19. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.
Positive Punishment
Adverse
Bridge
Extinction Burst
20. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Successive Approximation
Negative Reinforcer
21. The event which increases the frequency of the behavior it follows.
Strain
Reinforcement
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Reinforcement Contingency
22. The frequency that behavior is performed prior to training.
Chaining
Discriminative Stimulus
Baseline
Strain
23. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Accidental Reinforcement
Respondent Behavior
Behavioral Drift
24. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Reflex
Behavioral Drift
Intermittent Reinforcement
25. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.
Proactive Inhibition
Unconditioned Reflex
Intermittent Reinforcement
Baseline
26. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.
Continuous Reinforcement
Selective Reinforcement
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Avoidance Conditioning
27. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.
Avoidance Conditioning
Reinforcement
Unconditioned Response
Positive Punishment
28. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Response)
Learning
Station
Unconditioned Reflex
Deprivation
29. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Secondary
Station
Cue
30. The act of reinforcing by touch.
Target (verb)
Tactile Reinforcement
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Proactive Inhibition
31. Delivery of a reinforcer after a response that is incompatible or competes with a target response that is to be suppressed.
Positive Transfer
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Bridge
Target (verb)
32. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.
Emit
Latency
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Baseline
33. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Partial Reinforcement Maintenance)
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Station
Intermittent Reinforcement
Approximation
34. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.
Baseline
Terminal Response
Cue
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
35. A change or stray from the norm in standard of response.
Generalization
Reinforcement
Behavioral Drift
Secondary
36. A change or stray from the norm in standard of response.
Conditioned Response
Generalization
Behavioral Drift
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
37. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.
Accidental Reinforcement
Fading
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Stimulus Control
38. To do an operant behavior in response to a conditioned stimulus.
Emit
Satiation
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Operant or Operant Behavior
39. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Delta
Time-Out
Respondent Behavior
40. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.
Station
Latency
Superstitious Behavior
Adverse
41. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.
Extinction
Refusal
Satiation
Refusal
42. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Instrumental Conditioning)
Conditioning
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Operant or Operant Behavior
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
43. The failure of an operant behavior caused by previous aversive consequences.
Repression
Instinct
Conditioned Reinforcer
Differential Reinforcement
44. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.
Accidental Reinforcement
Behavioral Enrichment
Habit
Station
45. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Bridge
Avoidance Conditioning
Positive
46. An increase in frequency of a response which is followed by a positive reinforcer.
Habit
Affiliation
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Positive Reinforcement
47. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.
Strain
Delta
Conditioning
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
48. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Approximation
Terminal Response
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
49. A single step in the reinforcement process of shaping.
Behavioral Enrichment
Strain
Differential Reinforcement
Approximation
50. Describes the decreased frequency of a performance that occurs when the performance is not reinforced frequently enough.
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Discriminative Stimulus
Habit
Strain