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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. To add to the environment.






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






3. To automatically bring about a response.






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






5. The process by which a young animal forms a lasting attachment to and preference for some object - usually a parent.






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






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






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






9. The initial phase of an organism's response to a novel stimulus.






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






11. The point at which appetite is lost.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.






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






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






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






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






27. To connect or associate oneself with.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. A single step in the reinforcement process of shaping.






36. To remove from the environment.






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






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






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






40. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






41. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.






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






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






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






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






46. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.






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






48. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






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







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