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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.
Behavioral Enrichment
Continuous Reinforcement
Stimulus Control
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
2. A prop which pinpoints a critical location for an animal in training.
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Learning
Target (noun)
Primary Reinforcement
3. The initial phase of an organism's response to a novel stimulus.
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Stimulus
Deprivation
Orienting Response
4. Forces regulating behavior due to drives - needs - or desires.
Motivation
Stimulus Delta
Positive Reinforcement
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
5. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)
Successive Approximation
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Reflex
6. A change in the organism's behavior as a result of the influence of the environment.
Chaining
Conditioning
Latency
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
7. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.
Reinforcement
Behavioral Enrichment
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
8. The process by which a young animal forms a lasting attachment to and preference for some object - usually a parent.
Respondent Behavior
Time-Out
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Imprinting
9. The process of stimulating an animal to touch a particular object.
Target (verb)
Continuous Reinforcement
Affiliation
Continuous Reinforcement
10. When a behavior is reliably performed in the presence of one stimulus - but not another.
Extinction Burst
Proactive Inhibition
Stimulus Control
Continuous Reinforcement
11. Delivery of a reinforcer after a response that is incompatible or competes with a target response that is to be suppressed.
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Refusal
Conditioned Response
Behavioral Enrichment
12. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Terminal Response
Shaping
13. Any stimulus that has no effect on behavior before conditioning.
Elicit
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Bridge
Strain
14. A return to an earlier stage of learning.
Emit
Reinforcement Contingency
Regression
Primary Reinforcement
15. An increase in the frequency and intensity of responding at the beginning of extinction.
Extinction Burst
Attitude Shaping
Continuous Reinforcement
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
16. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.
Respondent Behavior
Strain
Response
Terminal Response
17. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.
Shaping
Discriminative Stimulus
Conditioning
Recall
18. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.
Accidental Reinforcement
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Negative Reinforcer
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
19. A procedure to reduce the intensity of a cue.
Conditioned Response
Fading
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Target (noun)
20. A stimulus that an animal responds to because its perception has been conditioned or learned.
Adverse
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Secondary
Emit
21. Forces regulating behavior due to drives - needs - or desires.
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Motivation
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Shaping
22. To add to the environment.
Learning
Positive
Positive Transfer
Bridge
23. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)
Reflex
Successive Approximation
Reinforcement Contingency
Affiliation
24. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.
Incompatible Behavior
Secondary
Selective Reinforcement
Conditioned Reinforcer
25. A stimulus which produces a response through pairing or association.
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Respondent Behavior
Continuous Reinforcement
Target (noun)
26. The frequency that behavior is performed prior to training.
Regression
Baseline
Recall
Shaping
27. A single step in the reinforcement process of shaping.
Delta
Approximation
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Chaining
28. An increase in frequency of a response which is followed by a positive reinforcer.
Unconditioned Reflex
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Regression
Positive Reinforcement
29. A single step in the reinforcement process of shaping.
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Approximation
Positive Punishment
30. A change in the organism's behavior as a result of the influence of the environment.
Delta
Chaining
Conditioning
Strain
31. The cessation of stimulus or response from the trainer - for some interval of time.
Shaping
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Time-Out
Regression
32. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Superstitious Behavior
Negative Reinforcer
33. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response.
Conditioned Response
Discriminative Stimulus
Satiation
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
34. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.
Extinction
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Tactile Reinforcement
Stimulus
35. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.
Conditioning
Learning Plateau
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Primary
36. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)
Superstitious Behavior
Refusal
Learning
Respondent Behavior
37. A change in behavior due to experience.
Positive
Learning
Reinforcement
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
38. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Emit
Delta
Unconditioned Reinforcer
39. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.
Selective Reinforcement
Response
Latency
Delta
40. Reducing the availability of - or access to - a reinforcer.
Stimulus Control
Deprivation
Imprinting
Habit
41. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.
Repression
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Reinforcer
Discrimination
42. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.
Superstitious Behavior
Discrimination
Differential Reinforcement
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
43. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.
Prompt
Accidental Reinforcement
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Unconditioned Response
44. To do an operant behavior in response to a conditioned stimulus.
Discrimination
Emit
Satiation
Recall
45. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Reward
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Unconditioned Reflex
46. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.
Conditioning
Avoidance Conditioning
Latency
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
47. To connect or associate oneself with.
Secondary Reinforcer
Selective Reinforcement
Affiliation
Attitude Shaping
48. To connect or associate oneself with.
Affiliation
Elicit
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
49. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.
Differential Reinforcement
Station
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Reflex
50. A conditioned stimulus which has the property of producing a specific behavior.
Unconditioned Reflex
Extinction Burst
Discriminative Stimulus
Positive Transfer