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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






2. Measures of observed behavior.






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






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






5. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.






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






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






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






9. To automatically bring about a response.






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






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






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






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






14. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






16. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






17. To connect or associate oneself with.






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






19. Reinforcement provided by a stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






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






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






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






23. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






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






25. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. When a stimulus acquires control of a response due to reinforcement in the presence of a similar - but different stimulus.






41. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.






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






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