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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






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






5. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.






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






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






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






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






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






11. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.






12. To remove from the environment.






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






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






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






16. A stimulus that pinpoints in time the precise moment of a desired response.






17. To automatically bring about a response.






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






19. The act of reinforcing by touch.






20. Measures of observed behavior.






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






22. Using a sound or cue to bring the animal back to station.






23. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






24. A stimulus that pinpoints in time the precise moment of a desired response.






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






26. The process of conditioning an animal's frame of mind in eliciting behavioral responses.






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. The point at which appetite is lost.






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. To automatically bring about a response.






41. To add to the environment.






42. A conditioned stimulus which has the property of producing a specific behavior.






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






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






45. Reinforcement provided by a stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






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






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






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






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






50. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.