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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. Forces regulating behavior due to drives - needs - or desires.






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






3. A lack of the desired response.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. An inborn predisposition to behave in a specific way when appropriately stimulated.






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






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






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






18. To remove from the environment.






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






20. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.






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






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






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






24. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.






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






26. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






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






28. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






29. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






30. To automatically bring about a response.






31. To add to the environment.






32. A lack of the desired response.






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






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






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






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






37. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






38. A change or stray from the norm in standard of response.






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






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






41. A change in behavior due to experience.






42. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






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






44. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.






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






46. To automatically bring about a response.






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






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






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






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