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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. To remove from the environment.






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






3. To connect or associate oneself with.






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






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






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






7. The event which increases the frequency of the behavior it follows.






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






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






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






11. A change in behavior due to experience.






12. The act of reinforcing exactly following the desired behavior.






13. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






15. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






24. A lack of the desired response.






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






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






27. To add to the environment.






28. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






29. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






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






31. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






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






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






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






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






37. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






40. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






41. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






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






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






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






46. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.






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






48. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.






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






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