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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. To remove from the environment.






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






11. To automatically bring about a response.






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






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






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






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






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






17. To automatically bring about a response.






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






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






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






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






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






23. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






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






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






27. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.






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






29. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






30. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.






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






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






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






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






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