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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.
Incompatible Behavior
Continuous Reinforcement
Time-Out
Negative Reinforcer
2. To connect or associate oneself with.
Affiliation
Satiation
Reinforcement Contingency
Response
3. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Avoidance Conditioning
Reward
Attitude Shaping
4. To remove from the environment.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Continuous Reinforcement
Negative
Elicit
5. A change in the organism's behavior as a result of the influence of the environment.
Refusal
Conditioning
Secondary Reinforcer
Generalization
6. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Recall
Response
Unconditioned Response
7. The event which increases the frequency of the behavior it follows.
Selective Reinforcement
Conditioned Response
Stimulus Delta
Reinforcement
8. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.
Learning Plateau
Learning
Performance
Approximation
9. Stimulus which elicits a reaction with no prior conditioning.
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Reinforcer
Accidental Reinforcement
Conditioned Response
10. To do an operant behavior in response to a conditioned stimulus.
Conditioning
Emit
Target (noun)
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
11. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.
Continuous Reinforcement
Reinforcer
Extinction
Stimulus Control
12. To connect or associate oneself with.
Conditioning
Affiliation
Reflex
Primary Reinforcement
13. A prop which pinpoints a critical location for an animal in training.
Behavioral Enrichment
Target (noun)
Shaping
Recall
14. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.
Conditioned Reinforcer
Extinction
Negative Reinforcer
Chaining
15. When a stimulus acquires control of a response due to reinforcement in the presence of a similar - but different stimulus.
Generalization
Positive
Learning
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
16. The act of reinforcing exactly following the desired behavior.
Differential Reinforcement
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Terminal Response
Positive Punishment
17. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.
Cue
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Imprinting
Negative Reinforcer
18. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Successive Approximation
Recall
Station
19. An increase in the frequency and intensity of responding at the beginning of extinction.
Unconditioned Response
Recall
Extinction Burst
Discrimination
20. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Intermittent Reinforcement)
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Behavioral Drift
Positive Reinforcement
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
21. A lack of the desired response.
Refusal
Performance
Proactive Inhibition
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
22. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.
Discrimination
Tactile Reinforcement
Shaping
Stimulus
23. A reflex response elicited by a conditioned stimulus alone.
Superstitious Behavior
Station
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Conditioned Response
24. The initial phase of an organism's response to a novel stimulus.
Orienting Response
Stimulus
Behavioral Enrichment
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
25. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.
Positive Reinforcement
Latency
Imprinting
Reflex
26. Forces regulating behavior due to drives - needs - or desires.
Reflex
Satiation
Discriminative Stimulus
Motivation
27. A change in behavior due to experience.
Reinforcer
Unconditioned Reflex
Operant or Operant Behavior
Learning
28. A return to an earlier stage of learning.
Imprinting
Regression
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Fading
29. A return to an earlier stage of learning.
Regression
Instinct
Secondary
Delta
30. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Extinction
Accidental Reinforcement
Avoidance Conditioning
31. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.
Refusal
Time-Out
Response
Satiation
32. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.
Incompatible Behavior
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Satiation
Attitude Shaping
33. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)
Reflex
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Positive
34. The process of conditioning an animal's frame of mind in eliciting behavioral responses.
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Attitude Shaping
Stimulus Delta
Affiliation
35. Forces regulating behavior due to drives - needs - or desires.
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Extinction Burst
Tactile Reinforcement
Motivation
36. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.
Affiliation
Shaping
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Baseline
37. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.
Positive Punishment
Chaining
Proactive Inhibition
Operant or Operant Behavior
38. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.
Reward
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Learning Plateau
Chaining
39. The frequency that behavior is performed prior to training.
Stimulus Control
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Proactive Inhibition
Baseline
40. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Response)
Deprivation
Unconditioned Reflex
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Reinforcer
41. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Reflex)
Reward
Refusal
Unconditioned Response
Continuous Reinforcement
42. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.
Negative Reinforcer
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Behavioral Drift
Affiliation
43. The act of reinforcing by touch.
Superstitious Behavior
Discrimination
Conditioned Reinforcer
Tactile Reinforcement
44. A lack of the desired response.
Satiation
Refusal
Instinct
Baseline
45. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.
Terminal Response
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Station
Target (noun)
46. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Partial Reinforcement Maintenance)
Reinforcement Contingency
Stimulus Delta
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Intermittent Reinforcement
47. Measures of observed behavior.
Performance
Instinct
Deprivation
Continuous Reinforcement
48. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.
Latency
Elicit
Primary
Primary Reinforcement
49. A stimulus which has been conditioned through generalization as a predecessor to an aversive stimulus.
Continuous Reinforcement
Avoidance Conditioning
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Extinction
50. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.
Imprinting
Target (noun)
Proactive Inhibition
Shaping