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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Elicit
Latency
Habit
2. Refers to the relationship between the reinforcement and the criteria of the performance.
Reinforcement Contingency
Target (noun)
Adverse
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
3. Represents the particular occasion on which a performance will not be reinforced. (same as Delta)
Accidental Reinforcement
Avoidance Conditioning
Motivation
Stimulus Delta
4. A stimulus that pinpoints in time the precise moment of a desired response.
Bridge
Repression
Response
Adverse
5. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.
Reward
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Response
6. The failure of an operant behavior caused by previous aversive consequences.
Repression
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Station
Strain
7. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.
Habit
Terminal Response
Bridge
Station
8. Any stimulus that has no effect on behavior before conditioning.
Generalization
Attitude Shaping
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
9. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.
Successive Approximation
Unconditioned Reflex
Positive Transfer
Accidental Reinforcement
10. A situation in which an organism is forced to choose on of two undesirable options.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Repression
Reward
11. A single step in the reinforcement process of shaping.
Proactive Inhibition
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Approximation
12. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Performance
Secondary
Reinforcement Contingency
13. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.
Successive Approximation
Refusal
Primary
Positive Reinforcement
14. Delivery of a reinforcer after a response that is incompatible or competes with a target response that is to be suppressed.
Successive Approximation
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Stimulus
Unconditioned Response
15. The frequency that behavior is performed prior to training.
Avoidance Conditioning
Response
Attitude Shaping
Baseline
16. To do an operant behavior in response to a conditioned stimulus.
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Primary Reinforcement
Emit
Stimulus
17. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.
Selective Reinforcement
Successive Approximation
Station
Reward
18. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.
Stimulus
Primary
Selective Reinforcement
Intermittent Reinforcement
19. A prop which pinpoints a critical location for an animal in training.
Elicit
Target (noun)
Emit
Terminal Response
20. Measures of observed behavior.
Performance
Secondary
Avoidance Conditioning
Immediacy of Reinforcement
21. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.
Reinforcement
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Incompatible Behavior
Successive Approximation
22. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Response)
Generalization
Attitude Shaping
Continuous Reinforcement
Unconditioned Reflex
23. The event which increases the frequency of the behavior it follows.
Reinforcement
Stimulus
Motivation
Approximation
24. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.
Positive Transfer
Generalization
Shaping
Station
25. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.
Learning Plateau
Discrimination
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
26. A signal which will trigger a specific behavior or reflex as a result of a learned association.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Proactive Inhibition
Cue
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
27. The point at which appetite is lost.
Intermittent Reinforcement
Positive
Delta
Satiation
28. Reducing the availability of - or access to - a reinforcer.
Motivation
Deprivation
Superstitious Behavior
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
29. A method used to shape organisms' behavior whereby successive approximations of the desired behavior are not reinforced.
Habit
Method of Approximation
Terminal Response
Motivation
30. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.
Accidental Reinforcement
Conditioned Response
Satiation
Negative Reinforcer
31. A stimulus which has been conditioned through generalization as a predecessor to an aversive stimulus.
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Secondary Reinforcer
Response
32. To automatically bring about a response.
Habit
Target (verb)
Reinforcement Contingency
Elicit
33. Delivery of a reinforcer after a response that is incompatible or competes with a target response that is to be suppressed.
Primary Reinforcement
Positive Punishment
Refusal
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
34. Refers to the relationship between the reinforcement and the criteria of the performance.
Satiation
Tactile Reinforcement
Reinforcement Contingency
Selective Reinforcement
35. An increase in the frequency and intensity of responding at the beginning of extinction.
Intermittent Reinforcement
Performance
Stimulus Control
Extinction Burst
36. When a stimulus acquires control of a response due to reinforcement in the presence of a similar - but different stimulus.
Negative
Repression
Generalization
Positive Transfer
37. To connect or associate oneself with.
Instinct
Primary Reinforcement
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Affiliation
38. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.
Avoidance Conditioning
Selective Reinforcement
Primary
Unconditioned Response
39. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.
Proactive Inhibition
Station
Positive Punishment
Latency
40. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Reflex
Negative Reinforcer
41. The process of stimulating an animal to touch a particular object.
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Reinforcement
Target (verb)
Extinction Burst
42. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Reflex)
Behavioral Enrichment
Unconditioned Response
Extinction Burst
Bridge
43. The cessation of stimulus or response from the trainer - for some interval of time.
Reinforcer
Time-Out
Selective Reinforcement
Habit
44. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Station
Positive Reinforcement
Habit
45. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Instrumental Conditioning)
Negative Reinforcer
Regression
Unconditioned Response
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
46. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Superstitious Behavior
Avoidance Conditioning
Conditioned Response
47. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.
Delta
Negative Reinforcer
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Motivation
48. Reinforcement provided by a stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.
Latency
Primary Reinforcement
Prompt
Shaping
49. A stimulus which has been conditioned through generalization as a predecessor to an aversive stimulus.
Deprivation
Emit
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
50. A lack of the desired response.
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Affiliation
Refusal
Elicit