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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. Refers to the relationship between the reinforcement and the criteria of the performance.
Stimulus
Differential Reinforcement
Refusal
Reinforcement Contingency
2. The process of conditioning an animal's frame of mind in eliciting behavioral responses.
Attitude Shaping
Instinct
Continuous Reinforcement
Extinction Burst
3. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.
Chaining
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Habit
4. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Strain
Successive Approximation
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
5. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Method of Approximation
Elicit
Deprivation
6. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.
Incompatible Behavior
Reinforcement Contingency
Shaping
Regression
7. The failure of an operant behavior caused by previous aversive consequences.
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Positive Transfer
Repression
Orienting Response
8. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Behavioral Drift
Adverse
Repression
9. A change in behavior due to experience.
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Baseline
Learning
Unconditioned Reflex
10. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.
Learning Plateau
Adverse
Time-Out
Generalization
11. Decreasing the frequency of a response by the addition of an aversive stimulus.
Unconditioned Reflex
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Primary Reinforcement
Positive Punishment
12. The act of reinforcing by touch.
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Generalization
Regression
Tactile Reinforcement
13. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.
Orienting Response
Reflex
Conditioned Reinforcer
Unconditioned Reinforcer
14. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Stimulus
Target (verb)
Reinforcement
15. A reflex response elicited by a conditioned stimulus alone.
Stimulus
Conditioned Response
Extinction Burst
Imprinting
16. An increase in the frequency and intensity of responding at the beginning of extinction.
Bridge
Extinction Burst
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Emit
17. The frequency that behavior is performed prior to training.
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Bridge
Positive Reinforcement
Baseline
18. Reducing the availability of - or access to - a reinforcer.
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Intermittent Reinforcement
Deprivation
Performance
19. A stimulus that an animal responds to because its perception has been conditioned or learned.
Tactile Reinforcement
Affiliation
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Secondary
20. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.
Emit
Station
Reinforcement
Learning Plateau
21. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Instrumental Conditioning)
Primary
Discriminative Stimulus
Attitude Shaping
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
22. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.
Discriminative Stimulus
Positive Punishment
Motivation
Discrimination
23. A return to an earlier stage of learning.
Extinction
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Regression
Superstitious Behavior
24. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.
Selective Reinforcement
Affiliation
Regression
Behavioral Enrichment
25. To do an operant behavior in response to a conditioned stimulus.
Method of Approximation
Instinct
Emit
Reinforcer
26. The process of stimulating an animal to touch a particular object.
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Deprivation
Target (verb)
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
27. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.
Method of Approximation
Differential Reinforcement
Tactile Reinforcement
Unconditioned Reinforcer
28. An increase in the frequency and intensity of responding at the beginning of extinction.
Conditioning
Proactive Inhibition
Behavioral Enrichment
Extinction Burst
29. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.
Strain
Successive Approximation
Recall
Terminal Response
30. The act of reinforcing by touch.
Conditioning
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Tactile Reinforcement
31. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.
Learning
Reinforcer
Intermittent Reinforcement
Successive Approximation
32. Using a sound or cue to bring the animal back to station.
Unconditioned Response
Recall
Shaping
Orienting Response
33. To automatically bring about a response.
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Habit
Elicit
Differential Reinforcement
34. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.
Instinct
Affiliation
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Motivation
35. A return to an earlier stage of learning.
Regression
Secondary
Target (verb)
Baseline
36. A change or stray from the norm in standard of response.
Bridge
Station
Differential Reinforcement
Behavioral Drift
37. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.
Avoidance Conditioning
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Chaining
Latency
38. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Intermittent Reinforcement)
Continuous Reinforcement
Positive Reinforcement
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Emit
39. An increase in frequency of a response which is followed by a positive reinforcer.
Positive Transfer
Positive Reinforcement
Latency
Elicit
40. A procedure to reduce the intensity of a cue.
Positive Punishment
Fading
Reinforcement Contingency
Reinforcement
41. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Response)
Operant or Operant Behavior
Baseline
Unconditioned Reflex
Regression
42. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.
Differential Reinforcement
Continuous Reinforcement
Fading
Negative
43. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Primary
Reinforcement
Instinct
44. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Refusal
Instinct
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
45. Using a sound or cue to bring the animal back to station.
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Negative
Recall
Learning
46. Any stimulus that has no effect on behavior before conditioning.
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Conditioning
Time-Out
47. Refers to the relationship between the reinforcement and the criteria of the performance.
Prompt
Deprivation
Reinforcer
Reinforcement Contingency
48. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.
Baseline
Cue
Accidental Reinforcement
Refusal
49. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)
Extinction Burst
Successive Approximation
Recall
Respondent Behavior
50. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.
Unconditioned Reflex
Negative Reinforcer
Response
Incompatible Behavior