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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






2. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






3. To do an operant behavior in response to a conditioned stimulus.






4. The process of stimulating an animal to touch a particular object.






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






6. A single step in the reinforcement process of shaping.






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






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






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






10. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






12. The event which increases the frequency of the behavior it follows.






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. An increase in frequency of a response which is followed by a positive reinforcer.






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






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






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






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






24. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.






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






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






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






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






29. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.






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






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






32. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.






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






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






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






36. To remove from the environment.






37. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.






38. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.