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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






3. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






4. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.






5. To automatically bring about a response.






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






7. To connect or associate oneself with.






8. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.






9. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






11. Measures of observed behavior.






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






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






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






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






16. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






18. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






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






21. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. A lack of the desired response.






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






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






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






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






34. To add to the environment.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.