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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. A lack of the desired response.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Refusal
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Continuous Reinforcement
2. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.
Positive Transfer
Proactive Inhibition
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Emit
3. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Conditioned Response
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Stimulus
4. An increase in the frequency and intensity of responding at the beginning of extinction.
Strain
Approximation
Extinction Burst
Avoidance Conditioning
5. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.
Target (noun)
Secondary Reinforcer
Conditioning
Regression
6. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Operant Conditioning)
Positive Transfer
Tactile Reinforcement
Terminal Response
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
7. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Intermittent Reinforcement)
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Generalization
Primary Reinforcement
Extinction Burst
8. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.
Target (verb)
Successive Approximation
Secondary Reinforcer
Negative Reinforcer
9. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.
Avoidance Conditioning
Positive Punishment
Unconditioned Reflex
Accidental Reinforcement
10. A change or stray from the norm in standard of response.
Stimulus
Behavioral Drift
Proactive Inhibition
Unconditioned Response
11. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Bridge
Negative Reinforcer
Positive Transfer
12. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Extinction
Stimulus Delta
Latency
13. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.
Prompt
Reward
Reinforcer
Approximation
14. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.
Orienting Response
Positive Transfer
Secondary
Discriminative Stimulus
15. A lack of the desired response.
Refusal
Extinction
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Instinct
16. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.
Attitude Shaping
Generalization
Continuous Reinforcement
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
17. To connect or associate oneself with.
Selective Reinforcement
Affiliation
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
18. The process of stimulating an animal to touch a particular object.
Deprivation
Target (verb)
Negative
Response
19. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.
Discrimination
Performance
Method of Approximation
Attitude Shaping
20. Reducing the availability of - or access to - a reinforcer.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Avoidance Conditioning
Fading
Deprivation
21. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.
Extinction Burst
Proactive Inhibition
Bridge
Primary
22. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.
Habit
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Primary
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
23. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response.
Shaping
Avoidance Conditioning
Learning Plateau
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
24. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.
Recall
Reinforcement
Target (verb)
Operant or Operant Behavior
25. A prop which pinpoints a critical location for an animal in training.
Respondent Behavior
Approximation
Stimulus Control
Target (noun)
26. A situation in which an organism is forced to choose on of two undesirable options.
Latency
Bridge
Refusal
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
27. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Response)
Recall
Target (verb)
Unconditioned Reflex
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
28. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Negative Reinforcer
Incompatible Behavior
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
29. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.
Deprivation
Reflex
Adverse
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
30. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.
Adverse
Learning Plateau
Primary
Conditioned Reinforcer
31. To remove from the environment.
Secondary Reinforcer
Terminal Response
Superstitious Behavior
Negative
32. A change in the organism's behavior as a result of the influence of the environment.
Reinforcement
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Conditioning
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
33. The act of reinforcing exactly following the desired behavior.
Strain
Delta
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Accidental Reinforcement
34. A prop which pinpoints a critical location for an animal in training.
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Proactive Inhibition
Target (noun)
Response
35. A stimulus which produces a response through pairing or association.
Conditioned Response
Latency
Reinforcement
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
36. The act of reinforcing by touch.
Accidental Reinforcement
Stimulus
Extinction
Tactile Reinforcement
37. An increase in frequency of a response which is followed by a positive reinforcer.
Extinction
Unconditioned Reflex
Positive Reinforcement
Secondary
38. Delivery of a reinforcer after a response that is incompatible or competes with a target response that is to be suppressed.
Deprivation
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Superstitious Behavior
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
39. An increase in frequency of a response which is followed by a positive reinforcer.
Behavioral Enrichment
Strain
Positive Reinforcement
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
40. When a behavior is reliably performed in the presence of one stimulus - but not another.
Discriminative Stimulus
Negative Reinforcer
Stimulus Control
Behavioral Enrichment
41. The initial phase of an organism's response to a novel stimulus.
Emit
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Orienting Response
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
42. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.
Unconditioned Response
Reinforcer
Unconditioned Reflex
Stimulus
43. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)
Secondary Reinforcer
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Respondent Behavior
Motivation
44. The frequency that behavior is performed prior to training.
Baseline
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Differential Reinforcement
Deprivation
45. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Learning Plateau
Delta
Extinction
46. Using a sound or cue to bring the animal back to station.
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Recall
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Orienting Response
47. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Reflex)
Unconditioned Reflex
Unconditioned Response
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Learning Plateau
48. The initial phase of an organism's response to a novel stimulus.
Orienting Response
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Positive Reinforcement
Extinction Burst
49. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.
Fading
Recall
Prompt
Continuous Reinforcement
50. Using a sound or cue to bring the animal back to station.
Imprinting
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Conditioning
Recall