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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.
Learning Plateau
Habit
Negative
Unconditioned Reflex
2. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.
Negative Reinforcer
Affiliation
Repression
Shaping
3. A lack of the desired response.
Discriminative Stimulus
Elicit
Refusal
Method of Approximation
4. Refers to the relationship between the reinforcement and the criteria of the performance.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Reinforcement Contingency
Approximation
Primary
5. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.
Imprinting
Learning Plateau
Strain
Operant or Operant Behavior
6. A procedure to reduce the intensity of a cue.
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Fading
Negative
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
7. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.
Generalization
Motivation
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Orienting Response
8. The frequency that behavior is performed prior to training.
Primary Reinforcement
Adverse
Accidental Reinforcement
Baseline
9. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)
Respondent Behavior
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Elicit
Station
10. A prop which pinpoints a critical location for an animal in training.
Primary
Incompatible Behavior
Operant or Operant Behavior
Target (noun)
11. Measures of observed behavior.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Performance
Reflex
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
12. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.
Conditioned Reinforcer
Latency
Primary Reinforcement
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
13. Measures of observed behavior.
Negative Reinforcer
Performance
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Affiliation
14. A stimulus which produces a response through pairing or association.
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Response
Discriminative Stimulus
Method of Approximation
15. An increase in frequency of a response which is followed by a positive reinforcer.
Reinforcement
Positive Reinforcement
Tactile Reinforcement
Deprivation
16. An inborn predisposition to behave in a specific way when appropriately stimulated.
Instinct
Motivation
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Attitude Shaping
17. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.
Differential Reinforcement
Stimulus
Habit
Target (verb)
18. A signal which will trigger a specific behavior or reflex as a result of a learned association.
Shaping
Cue
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
19. To connect or associate oneself with.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Affiliation
Differential Reinforcement
20. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Avoidance Conditioning
Continuous Reinforcement
Method of Approximation
21. The event which increases the frequency of the behavior it follows.
Emit
Successive Approximation
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Reinforcement
22. A stimulus that pinpoints in time the precise moment of a desired response.
Latency
Bridge
Conditioned Response
Station
23. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.
Imprinting
Discrimination
Primary Reinforcement
Conditioning
24. Decreasing the frequency of a response by the addition of an aversive stimulus.
Delta
Satiation
Positive Punishment
Behavioral Drift
25. The process by which a young animal forms a lasting attachment to and preference for some object - usually a parent.
Regression
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Imprinting
Shaping
26. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.
Baseline
Discriminative Stimulus
Target (verb)
Successive Approximation
27. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Instrumental Conditioning)
Primary Reinforcement
Imprinting
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Target (noun)
28. To remove from the environment.
Extinction Burst
Performance
Negative
Chaining
29. A conditioned stimulus which has the property of producing a specific behavior.
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Response
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Discriminative Stimulus
30. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.
Terminal Response
Positive Punishment
Incompatible Behavior
Stimulus Control
31. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Terminal Response
Secondary Reinforcer
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
32. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)
Reflex
Operant or Operant Behavior
Selective Reinforcement
Learning
33. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)
Superstitious Behavior
Continuous Reinforcement
Reflex
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
34. A stimulus that pinpoints in time the precise moment of a desired response.
Conditioning
Unconditioned Response
Target (verb)
Bridge
35. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.
Positive
Superstitious Behavior
Target (noun)
Latency
36. The act of reinforcing by touch.
Successive Approximation
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Chaining
Tactile Reinforcement
37. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.
Unconditioned Response
Positive Punishment
Terminal Response
Conditioned Response
38. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.
Target (verb)
Station
Recall
Extinction
39. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.
Avoidance Conditioning
Conditioned Reinforcer
Positive Reinforcement
Successive Approximation
40. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.
Learning Plateau
Secondary
Attitude Shaping
Primary
41. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.
Negative Reinforcer
Reward
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Behavioral Drift
42. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.
Primary Reinforcement
Reflex
Stimulus Control
Adverse
43. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Adverse
Behavioral Enrichment
Unconditioned Reinforcer
44. Forces regulating behavior due to drives - needs - or desires.
Reflex
Motivation
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Extinction
45. Reducing the availability of - or access to - a reinforcer.
Deprivation
Behavioral Drift
Positive
Delta
46. Stimulus which elicits a reaction with no prior conditioning.
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Imprinting
Fading
47. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Operant Conditioning)
Generalization
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Approximation
Conditioned Reinforcer
48. A change in behavior due to experience.
Learning
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Approximation
49. The act of reinforcing exactly following the desired behavior.
Positive Transfer
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Immediacy of Reinforcement
50. A change or stray from the norm in standard of response.
Behavioral Drift
Discrimination
Reinforcement
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict