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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






2. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






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






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






6. The failure of an operant behavior caused by previous aversive consequences.






7. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






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






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






11. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






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






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






16. To add to the environment.






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






18. The act of reinforcing by touch.






19. A lack of the desired response.






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






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






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






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






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






25. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.






26. Measures of observed behavior.






27. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.






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






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






30. Refers to the relationship between the reinforcement and the criteria of the performance.






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.






38. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Partial Reinforcement Maintenance)






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






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






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






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






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






44. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.






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






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






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






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






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






50. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Intermittent Reinforcement)