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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






2. To add to the environment.






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






4. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.






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






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






7. Any stimulus that has no effect on behavior before conditioning.






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






9. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






10. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






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






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






15. The initial phase of an organism's response to a novel stimulus.






16. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






17. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.






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






19. To connect or associate oneself with.






20. Measures of observed behavior.






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






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






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






24. When a stimulus acquires control of a response due to reinforcement in the presence of a similar - but different stimulus.






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






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






27. Any stimulus that has no effect on behavior before conditioning.






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






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






30. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






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






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






34. An increase in the frequency and intensity of responding at the beginning of extinction.






35. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






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






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