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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Reflex)
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Fading
Generalization
Unconditioned Response
2. Decreasing the frequency of a response by the addition of an aversive stimulus.
Attitude Shaping
Positive Punishment
Differential Reinforcement
Fading
3. When a stimulus acquires control of a response due to reinforcement in the presence of a similar - but different stimulus.
Selective Reinforcement
Refusal
Generalization
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
4. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.
Incompatible Behavior
Extinction
Recall
Conditioned Reinforcer
5. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.
Target (noun)
Positive Transfer
Emit
Proactive Inhibition
6. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Secondary
Reflex
Discrimination
7. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.
Emit
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Refusal
Adverse
8. An increase in the frequency and intensity of responding at the beginning of extinction.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Shaping
Incompatible Behavior
Extinction Burst
9. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.
Proactive Inhibition
Negative Reinforcer
Stimulus Delta
Approximation
10. The process of conditioning an animal's frame of mind in eliciting behavioral responses.
Proactive Inhibition
Shaping
Generalization
Attitude Shaping
11. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.
Chaining
Differential Reinforcement
Conditioned Response
Time-Out
12. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.
Prompt
Selective Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcer
Secondary Reinforcer
13. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.
Behavioral Enrichment
Secondary Reinforcer
Habit
Successive Approximation
14. To remove from the environment.
Negative Reinforcer
Negative
Strain
Performance
15. The process by which a young animal forms a lasting attachment to and preference for some object - usually a parent.
Imprinting
Incompatible Behavior
Bridge
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
16. Delivery of a reinforcer after a response that is incompatible or competes with a target response that is to be suppressed.
Target (verb)
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Satiation
Learning Plateau
17. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.
Satiation
Station
Approximation
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
18. A stimulus that pinpoints in time the precise moment of a desired response.
Regression
Operant or Operant Behavior
Satiation
Bridge
19. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.
Prompt
Reinforcement Contingency
Baseline
Positive Reinforcement
20. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Behavioral Enrichment
Extinction
Reinforcer
21. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.
Station
Reflex
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Method of Approximation
22. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Station
Reward
Shaping
23. A signal which will trigger a specific behavior or reflex as a result of a learned association.
Unconditioned Reflex
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Latency
Cue
24. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.
Generalization
Extinction
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Conditioned Response
25. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.
Prompt
Primary
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Superstitious Behavior
26. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.
Continuous Reinforcement
Avoidance Conditioning
Superstitious Behavior
Tactile Reinforcement
27. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.
Primary
Reinforcement
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Satiation
28. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Instrumental Conditioning)
Discrimination
Strain
Method of Approximation
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
29. The act of reinforcing exactly following the desired behavior.
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Cue
Positive Punishment
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
30. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.
Latency
Motivation
Stimulus
Instinct
31. The initial phase of an organism's response to a novel stimulus.
Learning Plateau
Orienting Response
Extinction
Emit
32. A reflex response elicited by a conditioned stimulus alone.
Positive
Secondary Reinforcer
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Conditioned Response
33. The act of reinforcing by touch.
Refusal
Reward
Habit
Tactile Reinforcement
34. Refers to the relationship between the reinforcement and the criteria of the performance.
Latency
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Behavioral Drift
Reinforcement Contingency
35. A change in the organism's behavior as a result of the influence of the environment.
Conditioning
Unconditioned Response
Time-Out
Deprivation
36. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.
Chaining
Secondary
Fading
Positive
37. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Operant Conditioning)
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Behavioral Enrichment
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Terminal Response
38. An increase in frequency of a response which is followed by a positive reinforcer.
Positive Reinforcement
Prompt
Latency
Negative Reinforcer
39. A conditioned stimulus which has the property of producing a specific behavior.
Chaining
Recall
Discriminative Stimulus
Positive Transfer
40. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.
Positive Punishment
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Repression
Operant or Operant Behavior
41. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.
Bridge
Habit
Adverse
Chaining
42. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.
Positive Reinforcement
Successive Approximation
Response
Learning Plateau
43. Describes the decreased frequency of a performance that occurs when the performance is not reinforced frequently enough.
Bridge
Cue
Strain
Reflex
44. When a stimulus acquires control of a response due to reinforcement in the presence of a similar - but different stimulus.
Deprivation
Conditioned Reinforcer
Time-Out
Generalization
45. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Instrumental Conditioning)
Behavioral Drift
Terminal Response
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Immediacy of Reinforcement
46. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Conditioned Reinforcer
Reinforcer
Positive Punishment
47. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)
Secondary Reinforcer
Performance
Respondent Behavior
Generalization
48. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.
Deprivation
Selective Reinforcement
Latency
Discrimination
49. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.
Habit
Response
Tactile Reinforcement
Immediacy of Reinforcement
50. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response.
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Tactile Reinforcement
Habit
Reinforcement