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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






3. Measures of observed behavior.






4. The cessation of stimulus or response from the trainer - for some interval of time.






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






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






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






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






9. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






10. Any stimulus that has no effect on behavior before conditioning.






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






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






13. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






14. To add to the environment.






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






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






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






18. The process by which a young animal forms a lasting attachment to and preference for some object - usually a parent.






19. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.






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






21. An increase in the frequency and intensity of responding at the beginning of extinction.






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






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






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






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






26. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.






27. The point at which appetite is lost.






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






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






30. The process by which a young animal forms a lasting attachment to and preference for some object - usually a parent.






31. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






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






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






35. Decreasing the frequency of a response by the addition of an aversive stimulus.






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






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






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






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






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






41. An increase in the frequency and intensity of responding at the beginning of extinction.






42. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






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






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






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






47. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






48. A stimulus that pinpoints in time the precise moment of a desired response.






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






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