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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.
Motivation
Unconditioned Reflex
Prompt
Attitude Shaping
2. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.
Attitude Shaping
Negative Reinforcer
Conditioned Reinforcer
Shaping
3. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.
Selective Reinforcement
Terminal Response
Latency
Stimulus Control
4. To connect or associate oneself with.
Repression
Discrimination
Affiliation
Recall
5. The event which increases the frequency of the behavior it follows.
Affiliation
Reinforcement
Affiliation
Chaining
6. A procedure to reduce the intensity of a cue.
Fading
Refusal
Positive
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
7. Decreasing the frequency of a response by the addition of an aversive stimulus.
Reward
Operant or Operant Behavior
Positive Punishment
Proactive Inhibition
8. A prop which pinpoints a critical location for an animal in training.
Latency
Stimulus
Target (noun)
Unconditioned Reflex
9. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.
Differential Reinforcement
Motivation
Positive Reinforcement
Superstitious Behavior
10. Describes the decreased frequency of a performance that occurs when the performance is not reinforced frequently enough.
Strain
Shaping
Delta
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
11. To add to the environment.
Elicit
Selective Reinforcement
Habit
Positive
12. To add to the environment.
Extinction Burst
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Tactile Reinforcement
Positive
13. A method used to shape organisms' behavior whereby successive approximations of the desired behavior are not reinforced.
Latency
Accidental Reinforcement
Method of Approximation
Positive Reinforcement
14. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.
Satiation
Fading
Reward
Stimulus
15. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Reflex)
Regression
Behavioral Drift
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Unconditioned Response
16. Delivery of a reinforcer after a response that is incompatible or competes with a target response that is to be suppressed.
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Negative
Discrimination
Elicit
17. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Response)
Target (verb)
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Discriminative Stimulus
Unconditioned Reflex
18. A change in behavior due to experience.
Learning
Negative Reinforcer
Stimulus
Deprivation
19. A change in the organism's behavior as a result of the influence of the environment.
Extinction Burst
Station
Selective Reinforcement
Conditioning
20. To automatically bring about a response.
Fading
Performance
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Elicit
21. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.
Avoidance Conditioning
Habit
Repression
Operant or Operant Behavior
22. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.
Behavioral Enrichment
Positive
Conditioned Reinforcer
Habit
23. To remove from the environment.
Conditioned Reinforcer
Deprivation
Negative
Target (verb)
24. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Chaining
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Motivation
25. A return to an earlier stage of learning.
Primary
Regression
Reinforcement Contingency
Superstitious Behavior
26. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.
Reinforcer
Behavioral Drift
Stimulus Control
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
27. A single step in the reinforcement process of shaping.
Strain
Reward
Repression
Approximation
28. The failure of an operant behavior caused by previous aversive consequences.
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Repression
Positive Reinforcement
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
29. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.
Shaping
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Satiation
Incompatible Behavior
30. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Instrumental Conditioning)
Affiliation
Respondent Behavior
Learning Plateau
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
31. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.
Discrimination
Orienting Response
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Fading
32. The process by which a young animal forms a lasting attachment to and preference for some object - usually a parent.
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Imprinting
Accidental Reinforcement
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
33. An increase in the frequency and intensity of responding at the beginning of extinction.
Attitude Shaping
Selective Reinforcement
Cue
Extinction Burst
34. When a behavior is reliably performed in the presence of one stimulus - but not another.
Successive Approximation
Reward
Stimulus Control
Secondary Reinforcer
35. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.
Latency
Cue
Reinforcement Contingency
Orienting Response
36. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.
Habit
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
37. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.
Discrimination
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Adverse
Regression
38. The act of reinforcing by touch.
Attitude Shaping
Tactile Reinforcement
Behavioral Drift
Positive
39. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.
Avoidance Conditioning
Affiliation
Conditioned Response
Learning Plateau
40. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.
Successive Approximation
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Performance
Approximation
41. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.
Extinction Burst
Avoidance Conditioning
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Conditioning
42. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.
Cue
Extinction
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
43. Reducing the availability of - or access to - a reinforcer.
Behavioral Drift
Response
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Deprivation
44. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response.
Conditioning
Learning
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Immediacy of Reinforcement
45. A stimulus which has been conditioned through generalization as a predecessor to an aversive stimulus.
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Prompt
Secondary Reinforcer
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
46. A stimulus which produces a response through pairing or association.
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Delta
Emit
Secondary Reinforcer
47. A reflex response elicited by a conditioned stimulus alone.
Conditioned Response
Incompatible Behavior
Successive Approximation
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
48. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.
Secondary Reinforcer
Repression
Differential Reinforcement
Shaping
49. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Conditioned Response
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Time-Out
50. The process of conditioning an animal's frame of mind in eliciting behavioral responses.
Response
Attitude Shaping
Reinforcement Contingency
Reinforcer