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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






3. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.






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






14. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.






15. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






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






18. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)






19. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






20. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






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






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






24. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.






25. To remove from the environment.






26. Describes the decreased frequency of a performance that occurs when the performance is not reinforced frequently enough.






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






28. Describes the decreased frequency of a performance that occurs when the performance is not reinforced frequently enough.






29. A reflex response elicited by a conditioned stimulus alone.






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






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






32. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.






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






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






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






36. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.






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






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






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






40. The act of reinforcing by touch.






41. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






42. Stimulus which elicits a reaction with no prior conditioning.






43. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






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






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






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






47. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






48. The process of stimulating an animal to touch a particular object.






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






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