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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Measures of observed behavior.






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






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






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






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






25. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






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






27. The point at which appetite is lost.






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






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






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






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






32. To automatically bring about a response.






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






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






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






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






37. To connect or associate oneself with.






38. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. A lack of the desired response.