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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






13. To remove from the environment.






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






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






16. A lack of the desired response.






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






18. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.






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






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






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






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






30. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






31. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






32. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






34. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.






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






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






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






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






39. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






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






41. When a behavior is reliably performed in the presence of one stimulus - but not another.






42. A lack of the desired response.






43. To automatically bring about a response.






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






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






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






47. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






48. An increase in frequency of a response which is followed by a positive reinforcer.






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






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