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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. A lack of the desired response.






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






3. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.






4. A change or stray from the norm in standard of response.






5. To add to the environment.






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






7. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






8. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.






9. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.






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






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






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






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






14. To remove from the environment.






15. The act of reinforcing exactly following the desired behavior.






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






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






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






19. To automatically bring about a response.






20. A procedure to reduce the intensity of a cue.






21. An inborn predisposition to behave in a specific way when appropriately stimulated.






22. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response.






23. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)






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






25. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






27. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. To connect or associate oneself with.






37. To remove from the environment.






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






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






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






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






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






43. A reflex response elicited by a conditioned stimulus alone.






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






45. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






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






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






50. A stimulus which produces a response through pairing or association.