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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






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






5. To connect or associate oneself with.






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






7. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






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






9. To automatically bring about a response.






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






11. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






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






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






15. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.






16. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.






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






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






19. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. A change in behavior due to experience.






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






38. Measures of observed behavior.






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






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






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






42. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






43. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.






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






45. To add to the environment.






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






47. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






48. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






49. A change in behavior due to experience.






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