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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.
Reward
Orienting Response
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Conditioning
2. A change or stray from the norm in standard of response.
Strain
Behavioral Drift
Deprivation
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
3. The act of reinforcing by touch.
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Tactile Reinforcement
Behavioral Enrichment
Response
4. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.
Station
Stimulus
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Elicit
5. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.
Affiliation
Reflex
Extinction Burst
Incompatible Behavior
6. An inborn predisposition to behave in a specific way when appropriately stimulated.
Reinforcement
Instinct
Imprinting
Repression
7. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.
Positive Punishment
Operant or Operant Behavior
Reward
Regression
8. Refers to the relationship between the reinforcement and the criteria of the performance.
Intermittent Reinforcement
Differential Reinforcement
Reinforcement Contingency
Fading
9. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Intermittent Reinforcement)
Fading
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Behavioral Drift
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
10. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.
Terminal Response
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
11. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response.
Stimulus Delta
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Operant or Operant Behavior
Operant or Operant Behavior
12. When a behavior is reliably performed in the presence of one stimulus - but not another.
Performance
Reinforcement
Stimulus Control
Strain
13. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.
Positive Transfer
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Positive Reinforcement
Chaining
14. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.
Stimulus Control
Successive Approximation
Positive Transfer
Learning
15. Measures of observed behavior.
Performance
Negative Reinforcer
Unconditioned Reflex
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
16. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.
Fading
Repression
Response
Reinforcer
17. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.
Primary
Regression
Chaining
Delta
18. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.
Reinforcer
Generalization
Extinction
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
19. The initial phase of an organism's response to a novel stimulus.
Orienting Response
Satiation
Response
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
20. A method used to shape organisms' behavior whereby successive approximations of the desired behavior are not reinforced.
Baseline
Behavioral Drift
Method of Approximation
Response
21. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.
Proactive Inhibition
Reinforcement
Elicit
Habit
22. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.
Fading
Prompt
Stimulus Delta
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
23. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Regression
Continuous Reinforcement
Unconditioned Response
24. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)
Positive Punishment
Selective Reinforcement
Cue
Respondent Behavior
25. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Operant Conditioning)
Refusal
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Imprinting
Instinct
26. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Behavioral Enrichment
Conditioning
Incompatible Behavior
27. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.
Secondary
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Shaping
Conditioning
28. The frequency that behavior is performed prior to training.
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Negative
Performance
Baseline
29. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Instrumental Conditioning)
Continuous Reinforcement
Operant or Operant Behavior
Reinforcement Contingency
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
30. Refers to the relationship between the reinforcement and the criteria of the performance.
Emit
Secondary Reinforcer
Extinction Burst
Reinforcement Contingency
31. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.
Avoidance Conditioning
Secondary
Positive
Orienting Response
32. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Negative Reinforcer
Discriminative Stimulus
Bridge
33. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.
Positive Punishment
Regression
Tactile Reinforcement
Station
34. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.
Recall
Performance
Operant or Operant Behavior
Proactive Inhibition
35. Describes the decreased frequency of a performance that occurs when the performance is not reinforced frequently enough.
Strain
Reinforcement Contingency
Unconditioned Response
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
36. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.
Satiation
Generalization
Affiliation
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
37. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.
Station
Chaining
Reinforcer
Secondary Reinforcer
38. To do an operant behavior in response to a conditioned stimulus.
Terminal Response
Intermittent Reinforcement
Emit
Extinction
39. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.
Instinct
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Delta
Selective Reinforcement
40. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.
Selective Reinforcement
Operant or Operant Behavior
Elicit
Positive Punishment
41. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Partial Reinforcement Maintenance)
Attitude Shaping
Intermittent Reinforcement
Satiation
Generalization
42. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.
Accidental Reinforcement
Shaping
Conditioned Response
Positive
43. To add to the environment.
Conditioning
Extinction Burst
Positive
Stimulus Delta
44. A method used to shape organisms' behavior whereby successive approximations of the desired behavior are not reinforced.
Method of Approximation
Positive Punishment
Baseline
Terminal Response
45. An increase in frequency of a response which is followed by a positive reinforcer.
Behavioral Drift
Time-Out
Positive Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcer
46. The process of stimulating an animal to touch a particular object.
Target (verb)
Adverse
Differential Reinforcement
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
47. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.
Reward
Respondent Behavior
Respondent Behavior
Prompt
48. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.
Incompatible Behavior
Affiliation
Target (noun)
Operant or Operant Behavior
49. A situation in which an organism is forced to choose on of two undesirable options.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Reflex
Differential Reinforcement
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
50. Stimulus which elicits a reaction with no prior conditioning.
Positive
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Delta
Elicit